Sysdig – Linux System Troubleshooting Tool

 Sysdig – Linux System Troubleshooting Tool

Sysdig is open source, Linux System Troubleshooting Tool: capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze. Think of it as strace + tcpdump + lsof + awesome sauce. With a little Lua cherry on top.

Sysdig was born from a team’s constant frustration. System level troubleshooting is just way more of a pain than it should be — especially in distributed, virtualized, and cloud-based environments. So they took the lessons they learned while building network monitoring tools like WinPCap and Wireshark and created a new kind of system troubleshooting tool for Linux.

What is Sysdig tool?

Sysdig uses a unified platform to deliver security, monitoring, and forensics in a container- and microservices-friendly architecture. Sysdig Monitor is a monitoring, troubleshooting, and alerting suite offering deep, process-level visibility into dynamic, distributed production 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.

Sysdig is also packed with a set of scripts that make it easier to extract useful information and do troubleshooting.

How use Sysdig command in Linux?

Reading captured data from a file with Sysdig is as simple as passing the -r switch to the sysdig command, like this: sudo sysdig -r sysdig-trace-file . scap.

How is working at Sysdig?

154 Participants grade the quality of their coworkers an A+. The majority of employees at Sysdig believe the environment at Sysdig is positive. Most Participants believe the pace of work at Sysdig is comfortably fast. About 62% of the employees at Sysdig work 8 hours or less.

Is Sysdig secure?

At Sysdig, we provide deep visibility to run apps confidently on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The Sysdig platform provides security built on an open-source stack that includes Falco and sysdig open source, the open standards for runtime threat detection and response.