Kubeshark

An eBPF-based traffic analyzer that captures and indexes network traffic inside Kubernetes clusters.

FreeOpen sourceWebSelf-hostedCommand line
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About Kubeshark

Kubeshark captures network traffic inside a Kubernetes cluster using eBPF and indexes it at layers 4 and 7 with full Kubernetes context, such as which pod and service sent each request. It can decrypt TLS traffic without needing the keys.

You inspect traffic through a web dashboard, and AI agents can query it through an MCP server. It is installed with a CLI or Helm chart and suits developers and platform engineers debugging API calls between services.

Strengths

  • Traffic shown with pod and service context
  • Decrypts TLS without keys
  • Web dashboard plus MCP access for AI agents
  • Helm chart for installation

Limitations

  • Only for Kubernetes clusters
  • Needs cluster permissions to deploy eBPF capture

Details

Pricing
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License
Open source, license not stated
Developer
Kubeshark
Platforms
Web, Self-hosted, Command line
How it runs
Downloadable app, Self-hosted
Best suited for
Platform engineers debugging service-to-service traffic in Kubernetes
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Provenance
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Alternatives to Kubeshark

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  • Hubble

    A network, service and security observability tool for Kubernetes clusters running Cilium, built on eBPF.

    FreeOpen sourceSelf-hostedCommand line

    Hubble offers eBPF flow visibility and a service dependency graph for Kubernetes, but requires the cluster to run Cilium and lacks TLS decryption.

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