Sysdig – Linux System Troubleshooting Tool

Sysdig is an open source Linux system troubleshooting tool which allows you to capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze it. It includes strace, tcpdump, lsof and a number of other utilities all compiled into one Swiss-army style tool.

Sysdig is designed to simplify system level troubleshooting, in-particular distributed, virtualized and cloud-based environments. Sysdig captures system calls and other system level events using a linux kernel facility called tracepoints, which means much less overhead than strace. It then “packetizes” this information, so that you can save it into trace files and filter it, a bit like you would do with tcpdump. This makes it very flexible to explore what processes are doing.

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