GitHub - ananthb/starla: Unofficial RIPE Atlas Software Probe in Rust

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An alternative unofficial RIPE Atlas software probe written in Rust.

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Features

  • All measurement types: Ping, Traceroute, DNS, HTTP, TLS, NTP
  • Pure Rust SSH: no OpenSSH dependency, uses russh
  • No local ports: all communication flows through the SSH tunnel
  • Minimal container image: just the binary + CA certs, multi-arch (amd64/arm64)
  • NixOS module: declarative configuration with systemd hardening
  • Home Manager module: user-level service with launchd (macOS) or systemd (Linux)
  • macOS app bundle: Starla Tray.app with DMG installer and Install CLI script
  • Prometheus metrics: optional observability export
  • Bounded in-memory result queue: configurable capacity, drops oldest when full

Quick Start

# Docker / Podman
docker run -d --name starla \
  -v starla-state:/state \
  --cap-add NET_RAW \
  ghcr.io/ananthb/starla:latest

# NixOS
services.starla.enable = true;

# Ubuntu / Debian
curl -LO https://github.com/ananthb/starla/releases/latest/download/starla_0.3.0_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i starla_*.deb
sudo systemctl enable --now starla

# Fedora / RHEL
curl -LO https://github.com/ananthb/starla/releases/latest/download/starla-0.3.0-1.x86_64.rpm
sudo dnf install ./starla-*.rpm
sudo systemctl enable --now starla

# Release tarball
curl -LO https://github.com/ananthb/starla/releases/latest/download/starla-amd64.tar.gz
tar xzf starla-amd64.tar.gz && sudo ./starla/starla

After starting, register your probe at atlas.ripe.net/apply/swprobe using the public key from probe_key.pub in the state directory.

See the full installation guide for all options, configuration, and signature verification.

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License

AGPL-3.0-or-later: See LICENSE.