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Packetbeat vs Tailscale: What are the differences?

What is Packetbeat? Open Source application monitoring & packet tracing system. Packetbeat agents sniff the traffic between your application processes, parse on the fly protocols like HTTP, MySQL, Postgresql or REDIS and correlate the messages into transactions.

What is Tailscale? Private networks made easy. It connect all your devices using WireGuard, without the hassle. Create a secure network between your servers, computers, and cloud instances. Even when separated by firewalls or subnets, Tailscale just works It makes it as easy as installing an app and signing in..

Packetbeat belongs to "Network Monitoring" category of the tech stack, while Tailscale can be primarily classified under "Virtual Private Cloud".

Packetbeat is an open source tool with 9.02K GitHub stars and 3.33K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Packetbeat's open source repository on GitHub.

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    What is Packetbeat?

    Packetbeat agents sniff the traffic between your application processes, parse on the fly protocols like HTTP, MySQL, Postgresql or REDIS and correlate the messages into transactions.

    What is Tailscale?

    It connect all your devices using WireGuard, without the hassle. Create a secure network between your servers, computers, and cloud instances. Even when separated by firewalls or subnets, Tailscale just works. It makes it as easy as installing an app and signing in.

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