Show HN: SocatUI A task manager for Socat tunnels

Category: devtools

Tags: socat, tui, networking, process-management, rust

Score: 5.8/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 6, Documentation: 7, Utility: 5)

SocatUI is a Rust-based TUI that manages multiple socat relays, providing a task-manager-like interface to start, stop, monitor, and configure tunnels. It leverages socat's statistics output via SIGUSR1 to track per-process byte counts and connections, aggregating forked workers. The tool is useful for developers and sysadmins who need a lightweight, interactive way to manage socat tunnels without writing scripts.

Target audience: backend devs, devops, sysadmins

Repository: https://github.com/esurharun/socatui/ · Rust · MIT · 3 stars

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