Microsoft company has released for Linux operating systems, ProcMon, a tool monitoringς data in real time.
Microsoft said it revealed some time ago that it intended to bring some of the tools provided by Sysinternals to Linux. One of these tools mentioned at the time was Process Monitor or ProcMon for short. A preview version of the application is now available for Linux operating systems.
Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that displays real-time data such as register, thread activity, etc. It is a powerful tool that supports logging information to files, for future analysis.
The program is highly configurable, supports non-destructive filters, can also collect stacks from threads, download running processes, as well as log time frommovementof operations.
The Linux version of Procmon is now available on GitHub. The tool is open source and is released as a Preview. This means that it is limited to systems running Ubuntu 18.04 with a 4.18 to 5.3 kernel.
Microsoft plans to add more configurations for various Linux systems in the future. Currently the installation instructions in Appliances Ubuntu 18.04 is quite simple. You just have to execute the following commands:
- wget -q https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/$(lsb_release -rs) /packages-microsoft-prod.deb -O packages-microsoft-prod.deb
- sudo dpkg -i packages-microsoft-prod.deb
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install procmon
The Construction instructions are also provided on the GitHub website where Linux users can download a .deb file from the Versions section of the ProcMon GitHub page.
After installation you can run the procmon -h command to see the help screen. In general, Procmon is a powerful advanced monitoring tool for your system.
