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Unofficial RIPE Atlas Software Probe in Rust

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Starla – Unofficial Ripe Atlas Software Probe

by pcpuser·Apr 8, 2026·1 point·0 comments
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AI Analysis

●●SolidNiche GemShip It

Pure Rust SSH with no OpenSSH dependency beats the official probe on portability.

Strengths
  • •RocksDB persistent queue survives restarts without data loss
  • •NixOS module with systemd hardening for declarative deployments
  • •Prometheus metrics export built in for observability
Weaknesses
  • •Unofficial probe means less trust than RIPE's official client
  • •Niche audience limits broader adoption potential
Target Audience

Network engineers, DevOps teams using RIPE Atlas

Similar To

RIPE Atlas Software Probe · Pingmesh · OONI Probe

Post Description

Starla is an unofficial RIPE Atlas Software Probe client that is cross-platform, has an optional tray icon applet, and is a single static binary with no external dependencies.

Starla is available for Windows, MacOS, Linux, and for container runtimes.

Starla is documented at https://ananthb.github.io/starla. The RIPE Atlas Probe protocol is also documented at https://ananthb.github.io/starla/protocol.html.

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