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Network tools your agent already has

The web is where most answers are. These are what your agent uses to reach it and check what came back.

17 tools

Fetching a page, calling an API, resolving a name, checking whether something is actually up. Agents spend a lot of their time on the other end of a request, and having proper tools for it is the difference between reporting a failure and diagnosing one.

The tools

Preinstalled on every plan, with nothing to set up. A few depend on the engine you pick.

  • curl

    Make HTTP requests, post payloads and follow redirects.

  • wget

    Download files and mirror pages over HTTP and FTP.

  • nc

    Netcat. Open, listen on and test raw TCP connections.

  • socat

    Bridge sockets, files and ports between two endpoints.

  • dig

    Query DNS records and trace how a name resolves.

  • nslookup

    Look up a hostname or an address against a resolver.

  • host

    Quick DNS lookups for a name or an IP address.

  • ip

    Inspect the addresses, routes and links on the machine.

  • ss

    List the sockets, ports and connections open on the machine.

  • naabu

    Fast port discovery on hosts you are authorised to scan.

  • websocat

    Connect to a WebSocket endpoint and send or read frames.

  • ddgs

    Search the web from the shell and get results back as text or JSON.

  • xh

    Send HTTP requests with HTTPie syntax and readable output.

  • grpcurl

    Call gRPC services and list their methods from the shell.

  • oha

    Load-test an HTTP endpoint and report latency percentiles.

  • hurl

    Run HTTP requests and assertions written as a plain text file.

  • doggo

    Look up DNS records and get the answer back as JSON.

Get started

A real command line, already set up

Every agent runs on a sandboxed machine with the whole toolbox preinstalled. No setup step, on any plan.

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