Project comparison
Compare adoption, momentum, maintenance health, and project basics before choosing which tool to evaluate deeper.
eBPF-powered network observability for Kubernetes. Indexes L4/L7 traffic with full K8s context, decrypts TLS without keys. Queryable by AI agents via MCP and humans via dashboard.
The agent that grows with you
Hermes Agent has the larger GitHub footprint with 144.7K stars.
Kubeshark is currently growing faster at 0 stars this week.
Hermes Agent has the stronger health score at 80/100.
| Signal | Kubeshark | Hermes Agent |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | 11.9K | 144.7K |
| Weekly growth | 0 | 0 |
| Health score | 43 | 80 |
| Contributors | 52 | 1.0K |
| Commits per week | 3.5 | 610.4 |
| Open issues | 137 | 10.2K |
| Language | Go | Python |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Last commit | 10d ago | 9d ago |
| Last release | v53.2.5 | v2026.5.7 |
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