{"id":22778,"date":"2021-07-24T20:56:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T20:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/?p=22778"},"modified":"2021-07-24T20:56:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T20:56:47","slug":"top-21-free-open-source-tools-for-system-diagnostics-debuggers-for-software-engineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/top-21-free-open-source-tools-for-system-diagnostics-debuggers-for-software-engineers\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 21 free open source tools for System Diagnostics\/Debuggers for software engineers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

  \ud83d\udd38 strace<\/strong><\/a> – diagnostic, debugging and instructional userspace utility for Linux.
  \ud83d\udd38 DTrace<\/strong><\/a> – is a performance analysis and troubleshooting tool.
  \ud83d\udd38 ltrace<\/strong><\/a> – is a library call tracer, used to trace calls made by programs to library functions.
  \ud83d\udd38 ptrace-burrito<\/strong><\/a> – is a friendly wrapper around ptrace.
  \ud83d\udd38 perf-tools<\/strong><\/a> – performance analysis tools based on Linux perf_events (aka perf) and ftrace.
  \ud83d\udd38 bpftrace<\/strong><\/a> – high-level tracing language for Linux eBPF.
  \ud83d\udd38 sysdig<\/strong><\/a> – system exploration and troubleshooting tool with first class support for containers.
  \ud83d\udd38 Valgrind<\/strong><\/a> – is an instrumentation framework for building dynamic analysis tools.
  \ud83d\udd38 gperftools<\/strong><\/a> – high-performance multi-threaded malloc() implementation, plus some performance analysis tools.
  \ud83d\udd38 glances<\/strong><\/a> – cross-platform system monitoring tool written in Python.
  \ud83d\udd38 htop<\/strong><\/a> – interactive text-mode process viewer for Unix systems. It aims to be a better ‘top’.
  \ud83d\udd38 bashtop<\/strong><\/a> – Linux resource monitor written in pure Bash.
  \ud83d\udd38 nmon<\/strong><\/a> – a single executable for performance monitoring and data analysis.
  \ud83d\udd38 atop<\/strong><\/a> – ASCII performance monitor. Includes statistics for CPU, memory, disk, swap, network, and processes.
  \ud83d\udd38 lsof<\/strong><\/a> – displays in its output information about files that are opened by processes.
  \ud83d\udd38 FlameGraph<\/strong><\/a> – stack trace visualizer.
  \ud83d\udd38 lsofgraph<\/strong><\/a> – convert Unix lsof output to a graph showing FIFO and UNIX interprocess communication.
  \ud83d\udd38 rr<\/strong><\/a> – is a lightweight tool for recording, replaying and debugging execution of applications.
  \ud83d\udd38 Performance Co-Pilot<\/strong><\/a> – a system performance analysis toolkit.
  \ud83d\udd38 hexyl<\/strong><\/a> – a command-line hex viewer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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