Starla

An alternative unofficial RIPE Atlas software probe written in Rust.

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
• Prometheus metrics — optional observability export
• Persistent result queue — survives restarts via RocksDB

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_0.1.0_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-0.1.0-1.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.

Documentation

• Installation & Configuration
• Architecture
• API Reference

License

AGPL-3.0-or-later — See LICENSE.