Mailing the story:
Half baked ideas: strace visualizer
When you strace -f a collection of processes you end up with pretty frustrating output that looks like this. It’s almost impossible to keep track without pen and paper and plenty of time.
The half-baked idea is a visualization tool that takes the log file and constructs a picture — changing over time — of what processes are related to what other processes, what binaries they correspond to, what sockets are connected to each process (and connected between processes), what each program wrote to stderr, and so on.
The half-baked idea is a visualization tool that takes the log file and constructs a picture — changing over time — of what processes are related to what other processes, what binaries they correspond to, what sockets are connected to each process (and connected between processes), what each program wrote to stderr, and so on.