wstrace
Standalone zero-driver Windows system and API monitor in Rust
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Details
- External ID
- 1412038924
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- wstrace
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Oct. 9, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 16
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- —
Enrichment
- Niche
- code and binary analysis tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Observability & eval
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- system and api monitoring tool for windows
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No A zero-driver Windows system and API monitor relies on low-level OS internals such as ETW (Event Tracing for Windows), native API hooking, and undocumented NT structures.
What it would actually take: Requires Rust interfacing with Windows NT internals, user-mode ETW providers (e.g., Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Process/Network), and API hooking engines (like MinHook or custom trampoline hooks) across 32/64-bit processes. The primary hurdles are handling lockless ring buffers, thread-safe high-throughput event capture without tripping anti-malware/EDR, and deep Win32/NT kernel architectural knowledge.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 1732 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1148 of 1733 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 343 days after the earliest competitor.
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- FastPlay, a fast minimal Windows video player built in Rust · hn · 2026-06-25 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.61
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