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A Linux version of the Procmon Sysinternals tool

12 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 3 stories, 9 comments · first 2020-07-17 · latest 2025-09-01

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  1. …reason I thought it was about macOS rather than Linux. Procmon actually doesn’t even support macOS: https://github.com/microsoft/ProcMon-for-Linux/issues/37
  2. …to reflect that. Also we would have really go full circle if they used GPLv3 as the license :) [1] https://github.com/microsoft/ProcMon-for-Linux/blob/main/LIC...
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    A Linux version of the Procmon Sysinternals tool
    story by LelouBil · 2025-08-31 · 47 comments
  4. If on Linux or windows you can use Procmon or Instruments on macos. https://github.com/Sysinternals/ProcMon-for-Linux
  5. …18.04 is used for the development environment, it relies on pretty old dependencies. Bug report: https://github.com/Sysinternals/ProcMon-for-Linux/issues/44
    comment by gtirloni · 2021-05-06 · in ProcMon for Linux (Preview)
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    story by vmarsy · 2021-05-06 · 43 comments
  7. Under the hood that uses eBPF handlers for the sys_enter and sys_exit tracepoints https://github.com/microsoft/ProcMon-for-Linux/blob/main/src...
  8. Worth mentioning the Microsoft(!) Process Monitor for Linux, as well. https://github.com/microsoft/ProcMon-for-Linux The windows procmon is very powerful, but the linux one is still in preview so YMMV.
  9. …you, but that doesn't look like "phoning home" telemetry, but rather the events returned by the OS. https://github.com/microsoft/ProcMon-for-Linux/blob/70d5196e...
    comment by GrayShade · 2020-07-17 · in ProcMon for Linux
  10. Does it have telemetry built in? https://github.com/microsoft/ProcMon-for-Linux/search?q=tele...
    comment by olafure · 2020-07-17 · in ProcMon for Linux
  11. Great idea. I would start by filing an issue here: https://github.com/microsoft/ProcMon-for-Linux/issues There would have to be some limitations when not running as root, but it would still be useful for looking at your own processes. I…
    comment by Stratoscope · 2020-07-17 · in ProcMon for Linux
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    story by lowleveldesign · 2020-07-17 · 148 comments