strace Alternatives

strace is described as 'Diagnostic, debugging and instructional userspace utility for Linux. It is used to monitor interactions between processes and the Linux kernel, which include system calls, signal deliveries, and changes of process state' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to strace for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and FreeBSD apps. The best strace alternative is Process Monitor, which is free. Other great apps like strace are Valgrind, Stratoshark, API Monitor and SystemTap.

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  1. Process Monitor icon

    Process Monitor

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    Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity. It combines the features of two legacy Sysinternals utilities, Filemon and Regmon, and adds an extensive list of enhancements including rich and...

    55 Process Monitor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
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    • Process Monitor is the most popular Windows alternative to strace.

    • Process Monitor is the most popular free alternative to strace.

    • Process Monitor is Free and Proprietarystrace is Free and Open Source
  2. Valgrind icon

    Valgrind

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    Valgrind is an instrumentation framework for building dynamic analysis tools. There are Valgrind tools that can automatically detect many memory management and threading bugs, and profile your programs in detail. You can also use Valgrind to build new tools.

    9 Valgrind alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Android
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    • Valgrind is the most popular Android, Mac & Linux alternative to strace.

    • Valgrind is the most popular Open Source alternative to strace.

    • Valgrind is Free and Open Sourcestrace is also Free and Open Source
  4. Stratoshark icon

    Stratoshark

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    Provides an unprecedented view into application activity on systems, enabling exploration and analysis with advanced features. Familiar to Wireshark users, it offers seamless integration with Falco and Sysdig CLI, empowering IT professionals with comprehensive diagnostics and troubleshooting capabilities.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    Stratoshark screenshot 1
     
  5. API Monitor icon

    API Monitor

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    API Monitor is a Windows program that lets you monitor and control API calls made by applications and services. Its a powerful tool for seeing how applications and services work or for tracking down problems that you have in your own applications.

    10 API Monitor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. SystemTap icon

    SystemTap

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    SystemTap provides free software (GPL) infrastructure to simplify the gathering of information about the running Linux system. This assists diagnosis of a performance or functional problem. SystemTap eliminates the need for the developer to go through the tedious and disruptive...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    SystemTap screenshot 1
     

  7. lurk

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    Lurk allows the user to trace system calls of a process or of a command. In contrast to strace, lurk focuses on a simple, yet pretty, user experience while implementing the most important use cases of strace.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  9. Sysdig icon

    Sysdig

     12 likes

    Sysdig is open source, system-level exploration: capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze. Think of it as strace + tcpdump + lsof + awesome sauce.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. DTrace icon

    DTrace

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    DTrace is a performance analysis and troubleshooting tool that is included by default with various operating systems, including Solaris, Mac OS X and FreeBSD. A Linux port is in development.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Solaris
    • FreeBSD
     

  11. perf

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    perf is a performance analyzing tool in Linux, available from Linux kernel version 2.6.31 under tools/perf, and is frequently updated and enhanced. It is capable of lightweight profiling, supports hardware performance counters, tracepoints, software performance counters (e.g.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     

  12. ftrace

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    Ftrace is an internal tracer designed to find what is going on inside the kernel.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     

  13. ltrace

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    ltrace intercepts and records dynamic library calls which are called by an executed process and the signals received by that process. It can also intercept and print the system calls executed by the program. Used for debugging.

    14 ltrace alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
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  14. ktrace

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    The ktrace utility enables kernel trace logging for the specified processes. Kernel trace data is logged to the file ktrace.out. The kernel operations that are traced include system calls, namei translations, signal processing, and I/O.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
     
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