# Install hubble with Homebrew, Nix, zypper, winget

Network, Service & Security Observability for Kubernetes using eBPF. Version 1.19.4 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-27. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#hubble.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:hubble
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install hubble
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#hubble
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/hu/hubble/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install hubble
```

  Evidence: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: hubble from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst

### Windows

- winget (92%):

```sh
winget install --id Cilium.Hubble -e
```

  Evidence: Windows Package Manager source index: Cilium.Hubble from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:hubble
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.19.4
- **Source summary:** Network, Service & Security Observability for Kubernetes using eBPF
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/cilium/hubble>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/cilium/hubble>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-27T14:32:26+02:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- hubble (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.19.4
## Project history and usage

Hubble is the Cilium project's observability layer for Kubernetes networking, services, and security events. It is built on Cilium and eBPF so that operators can inspect service dependencies, network flows, DNS activity, HTTP behavior, policy denials, and cluster-wide communication without instrumenting each application.

### Project history

The cilium/hubble repository was created in November 2019, and public release metadata records v0.5.1 in April 2020. The project grew around Cilium's eBPF datapath: Hubble consumes visibility generated by Cilium and exposes it through the Hubble API, CLI, Relay, metrics, and UI components.

Cilium documentation treats Hubble as part of the Cilium observability story rather than a standalone packet sniffer. The documentation describes node-local visibility from the Hubble API, cluster-wide visibility through Hubble Relay, and a UI that discovers service dependency graphs at L3/L4 and L7.

### Adoption history

Hubble adoption follows Cilium adoption in Kubernetes clusters. The Cilium documentation says the Hubble CLI binary is installed by default on Cilium agent pods, while package-manager metadata in this batch shows external packaging through Homebrew, Nix, winget, and openSUSE for operators who want the CLI outside the cluster.

### How it is used

Operators use `hubble observe` to inspect flows, filter traffic by source, destination, namespace, labels, protocol, or verdict, and troubleshoot DNS, TCP, HTTP, Kafka, and network-policy behavior. In larger deployments, Hubble Relay and Hubble UI turn node-local flow data into cluster or multi-cluster observability.

### Why package nerds care

For package nerds, Hubble is a good example of cloud-native infrastructure tooling where the Homebrew formula is not the product's center of gravity. The CLI package is useful because it gives laptop-side access to an observability plane whose real data source lives inside Kubernetes and Cilium.

### Timeline

- 2019: cilium/hubble repository created.
- 2020: GitHub Releases metadata records Hubble v0.5.1.
- 2022: GitHub Releases metadata records Hubble v0.10.0.
- 2026: Hubble release table records v1.19.4 aligned with the Cilium 1.19 release train.

### Related projects

- Related projects include Cilium, eBPF, Kubernetes, Hubble Relay, Hubble UI, Cilium Cluster Mesh, Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry-style observability workflows.

### Sources

- Official Cilium documentation, Hubble repository README, GitHub repository and release metadata, and Homebrew package metadata supplied in the batch input.


## Security Notes

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal.

- **Geiger risk:** orange / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal
- infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/hubble/config.yaml, ~/.config/hubble/config.yaml, ~/.hubble/config.yaml
## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - hubble: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/hu/hubble/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- zypper - hubble - 1.19.4-1.4: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: hubble from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Network, Service & Security Observability for Kubernetes using eBPF | https://github.com/cilium/hubble
- zypper - hubble-bash-completion - 1.19.4-1.4: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: hubble-bash-completion from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Bash Completion for hubble | https://github.com/cilium/hubble
- zypper - hubble-fish-completion - 1.19.4-1.4: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: hubble-fish-completion from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Fish Completion for hubble | https://github.com/cilium/hubble
- zypper - hubble-zsh-completion - 1.19.4-1.4: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: hubble-zsh-completion from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Zsh Completion for hubble | https://github.com/cilium/hubble
- winget - Cilium.Hubble: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: Cilium.Hubble from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/hubble.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/hubble.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph