generated: '2026-07-19'
method: searched
source: https://pulsar.sh/docs/
name: pulsar
description: >-
  Pulsar is Exein's open-source, eBPF-powered runtime security tool for IoT and
  Linux devices. It ships two first-party binaries: a privileged daemon
  (pulsard) that monitors device activity and runs a rules engine, and a CLI
  (pulsar) that interacts with the running daemon.
homepage: https://pulsar.sh/
repo: https://github.com/exein-io/pulsar
install:
  - method: install-script
    command: "curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/exein-io/pulsar/releases/latest/download/pulsar-install.sh | sh"
  - method: prebuilt-binaries
    url: https://github.com/exein-io/pulsar/releases/latest
  - method: from-source
    command: cargo build (Rust toolchain)
binaries:
  - name: pulsard
    role: daemon
    description: Runs the monitoring modules and rules engine; requires administrator privileges.
  - name: pulsar
    role: cli
    description: Command-line client that interacts with the running pulsard daemon.
monitoring_modules:
  - file-io
  - network
  - processes
  - system-activity
features:
  - eBPF-based on-device monitoring
  - rules engine for threat/alert generation
notes: >-
  The published docs describe the two binaries and the four monitoring modules
  but do not enumerate the full pulsar subcommand surface; only documented
  behavior is captured here. No subcommands are fabricated.