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Microsoft Releases Open-Source Process Monitor for Linux

posted by chromas on Saturday July 18 2020, @11:50PM   Printer-friendly
from the micro$oft-please-stop-breaking-my-world-view dept.

DECbot writes:

Michael Larabel writes in Phoronix about Microsoft's new open-source process monitor for Linux:

Microsoft's newest open-source Linux software is ProcMon for Linux, a rewritten and re-imagined version of its Processor Monitor found on Windows within their Sysinternals suite.
 
Microsoft's ProcMon tool is a C++-written, open-source process monitor for Linux that makes it convenient to trace system call activity. This ProcMon Linux version is open-source under an MIT license.
 
Microsoft released the source code to their ProcMon Linux version on Thursday and is marked as a 1.0 preview release. Microsoft is also making available a Debian/Ubuntu package of this preview build.

The Phoronix article includes a gif demonstrating ProcMon. To my amateur eyes, this looks like htop without the resource monitoring and instead has some stack tracing capabilities. Has anybody given Microsoft's ProcMon a test drive? What are your thoughts?

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @12:58AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @12:58AM (#1023574)

    Yes, ncurses front end using bcc [github.com] and sqlite3 based storage. It's by the sysinternals guys, good to see the borg haven't fully assimilated them yet.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @01:02AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @01:02AM (#1023578)

    Sysinternals guys were real cool dudes, super frood, knew where their towels were, complete opposite of the utter turlingdromes, back when I had to deal with Windows stuff.

    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday July 19 2020, @01:06AM (1 child)

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday July 19 2020, @01:06AM (#1023580) Journal

      IIRC, Sysinternals was bought out by Microsoft. It wasn't a Microsoft project, until it became successful enough to purchase. I mean - it COULD HAVE become real competition to Microsoft, worse they could have made Microsoft look bad.

      • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @01:49AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @01:49AM (#1023595)

        Sysinternals were just a bunch of dude(tte)s that produces system tools for Windows. Their stuff was awesome useful for those who had to manage Windows computer networks, particularly for those that came from UNIX/VAX world and expected such tools to exist but didn't until the Systeinternans guys came along.

        They were never a competition to MS.