Spider Analyzer
Spider is a distributed systems analyzer and debugger. It captures and decodes the network traffic between your services - HTTPS, gRPC, Redis, PostgreSQL, and Kafka - and turns it into a graphical, searchable trace of what actually happened, request by request.
Instead of piecing together logs from five different services, you get one timeline: who called whom, with what payload, and how long it took - decrypted, even when the traffic was TLS-protected.
How it works
- Capture - lightweight agents (Gossiper/Whisperer) sniff traffic directly in your Kubernetes pods, no application changes required.
- Decrypt - Gocipher hooks into OpenSSL and native TLS via eBPF to recover session keys as connections happen.
- Parse - protocol-specific parsers reconstruct requests and responses for HTTP, gRPC, Redis, PostgreSQL, and Kafka.
- Visualize - the Network-View UI turns parsed traffic into timelines, communication grids, and service maps.
Services
Floocus supports Spider deployments beyond the software itself:
On-premises deployment
Spider deploys into your existing Kubernetes cluster via Helm charts, with automated setup and upgrades. It needs neither a large infrastructure footprint nor deep Kubernetes expertise to run - the prerequisite is a cluster and an Elasticsearch instance.
Support
Premium and Enterprise licenses both include support, differentiated by SLA and responsiveness - see Pricing for the full comparison.
Training
Three role-based trainings cover the full team: a user track (complete tour of capabilities and UI), an operator track (install, upgrade, tune, monitor, troubleshoot), and a developer track (build plugins, integrate with the API).
Consulting
Floocus consultants help with assisted setup and tuning, pair troubleshooting on live incidents, and one-on-one training tailored to your team.
Plugin development
Spider's plugin architecture lets you extend the UI with protocol decoders specific to your systems - Floocus can build these with you.