Is there a way to monitor any network calls made by plugins?

[ganesshkumar]

I know that I can use Fiddler to monitor all the outgoing network calls and filter by the Obsidian process.

I am curious to know, if there is any way to monitor the network calls made by the app or any plugins from within the app (maybe using another plugin?)

[joethei]

You can also open the developer tools by pressing Ctrl-Shift-I on Windows/Linux or Cmd-Opt-I on macOS, and then go to the “Network” tab to see all outgoing connections.

You could technically extract this data with a plugin, but I don’t see the use in that.

[ganesshkumar]

but I don’t see the use in that

Just to know if any plugin in sending any data over the wire. I personally prefer plugins that work entirely offline, given that the app itself is offline xD

[joethei]

@ganesshkumar

Just to know if any plugin in sending any data over the wire. I personally prefer plugins that work entirely offline, given that the app itself is offline xD

Given that there is already the network tab and external tools to view network traffic, writing a plugin would be a unecesary.

There have been discussions about this in the past:

Security - a plugin that monitors other plugins?

Hi everyone, Very interested but haven’t committed to Obsidian due to ongoing security concerns on the plugin side. This has been covered in some forum threads, that any plugin could have access to any part of your system drive, by design/necessity, and so technically, any plugin could to rogue and leak financial or other data from your machine. The main counterweight to this is people seeing the source at git, and then flagging/alerting on any malicious code. That’s a huge trust to put in ot…

Security of the plugins

[Security] I don’t know if Obsidan dev have think about that, but when the Obsidian plugins will open to public there will be: many noble developers as well as many who want to take advantage of the user data. As the core philosophy of Obsidian hovering around: The user is in charge of his data Data that are locally stored User data are not stored on server or cloud User data are processed locally Obsidian works offline and locally I can guarantee that there will be a huge amount of …

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/community-plugin-security-hint-and-quality-gate/26227/14

TLDR: Checking the security of plugins with another plugin is either a really bad idea, or straight up not possible.

[WahWah]

@joethei

Checking the security of plugins with another plugin is either a really bad idea

The idea-- that it’s a bad idea-- is a bad idea.