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tetragon

EBPF-based Security Observability and Runtime Enforcement (tetra CLI)
Cilium’s new Tetragon component enables powerful realtime, eBPF-based Security Observability and Runtime Enforcement.

Tetragon detects and is able to react to security-significant events, such as: - Process execution events - System call activity - I/O activity including network & file access

When used in a Kubernetes environment, Tetragon is Kubernetes-aware - that is, it understands Kubernetes identities such as namespaces, pods and so-on - so that security event detection can be configured in relation to individual workloads.

This package contains the tool tetra CLI.

Installed size: 50.70 MB
How to install: sudo apt install tetragon

Dependencies:
  • bpftool
  • libc6
tetra
root@kali:~# tetra -h
Tetragon CLI

Usage:
  tetra [flags]
  tetra [command]

Available Commands:
  bugtool       Produce a tar archive with debug information
  completion    Generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell
  cri           connect to CRI
  eventlog      Manage event exporter logging parameters
  explain       List the fields for supported resources
  getevents     Print events
  help          Help about any command
  info          Retrieve information from the server
  loglevel      Get and dynamically change the log level
  policytest    Tetragon policy tests
  probe         Probe for eBPF system features availability
  status        Print health status
  tracingpolicy Manage tracing policies
  version       Print version from CLI and server

Flags:
  -d, --debug                   Enable debug messages
  -h, --help                    help for tetra
      --max-recv-size int       Maximum gRPC message size in bytes the client can receive (default 10485760)
      --retries int             Connection retries with exponential backoff (default 1)
      --server-address string   gRPC server address
      --timeout duration        Connection timeout (default 30s)

Use "tetra [command] --help" for more information about a command.



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Updated on: 2026-May-25