strace-tui

A terminal user interface (TUI) for visualizing and exploring strace output.

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Overview

Supported features:

• Parses common strace output and flags (-tt -k -f -s 1024) (also provides JSON output of parsed traces).
• Color-code syscall by type and error status.
• Allow dynamically filtering and search syscalls.
• Resolve strace stack-trace output (strace -k) to function names and source lines using addr2line.
• Visualize multithreaded and multiprocess traces with a graph for forks and clones.
• Search text in syscall arguments and results.

Missing features:

• Filter traces by process or thread ID.
• Copy syscall details to clipboard (specially because the TUI truncates a lot of info).
• Export filtered traces to file.
• Better handle gigantic Rust/C++ symbols (currently truncates middle of the symbol)

Installation

At the moment, the easiest way to install is via Cargo:

cargo install strace-tui

Can also be installed from source:

git clone https://github.com/Rodrigodd/strace-tui.git
cd strace-tui
cargo install --path .

Usage

Parse an existing strace file (TUI)

strace -o trace.txt -tt -k -f -s 1024 ls -la
strace-tui parse trace.txt

Run strace and visualize

strace-tui trace ls -la

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.