PacketStreamer

Deepfence PacketStreamer is a high-performance remote packet capture and collection tool. It is used by Deepfence's ThreatStryker security observability platform to gather network traffic on demand from cloud workloads for forensic analysis. PacketStreamer sensors are started on the target servers. Sensors capture traffic, apply filters, and then stream the traffic to a central receiver. Traffic streams may be compressed and/or encrypted using TLS. The PacketStreamer receiver accepts PacketStreamer streams from multiple remote sensors and writes the packets to a local pcap capture file. PacketStreamer sensors collect raw network packets on remote hosts. It selects packets to capture using a BPF filter, and forwards them to a central receiver process where they are written in pcap format. Sensors are very lightweight and impose little performance impact on the remote hosts. PacketStreamer sensors can be run on bare-metal servers, on Docker hosts, and on Kubernetes nodes.