Packet Genie

Packet Genie is a simple packet capturing solution that implements a streaming REST API to orchestrate packet captures in a magical way.

Have you ever wanted to stream live packet captures on multiple hosts? Ever just wanted to do that over HTTP(s) with a REST API to make it easy to do?

Currently, a pre-release gem is avaiable to install with the --pre flag to help with early testing.

$ gem install packet_genie --pre

The Packet Genie server will stream packets on the host running the Packet Genie server. This allows you to perform a live, remote packet capture over HTTP(s).

require 'packet_genie'

# Start server without SSL
PacketGenie.server.run!(ssl: false)

Then, easily start a packet capture with CURL ( for example ):

$ curl localhost:4567/packets

Don't want to mess around with CURL? Why not use the Packet Genie client?

require 'packet_genie'

client = PacketGenie.client.new(uri: "http://localhost:4567")

client.packets do |packet|
  puts packet # do something with json
end

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.