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We've compiled a list of 13 free and paid alternatives to strace. The primary competitors include API Monitor, Valgrind. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between strace and ftrace, ltrace, Sysdig. Also you can look at other similar options here: Development Tools.


API Monitor is a Windows program that lets you monitor and control API calls made by applications...

Valgrind
Free Open Source

Valgrind is an instrumentation framework for building dynamic analysis tools.

ftrace
Free Open Source

A function tracer for the Linux kernel.

ltrace
Free Open Source

ltrace intercepts and records dynamic library calls which are called by an executed process and the...

Sysdig
Free Open Source

Sysdig is open source, system-level exploration: capture system state and activity from a running...

ktap
Free Open Source

A script-based dynamic tracing tool for Linux.

perf
Free Open Source

Instrument CPU performance counters, tracepoints, kprobes, and uprobes (dynamic tracing).

DTrace
Free Open Source

DTrace is a performance analysis and troubleshooting tool for Solaris, Mac OS X and FreeBSD.

JTracer
Free Open Source

C++ exception (and generic) stack trace debug suite

SystemTap provides instrumentation for a live running kernel and user-space applications.

Trace system calls and signals. A diagnostic, debugging and instructional userspace utility.

strace Platforms

tick-square Linux

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strace Overview

strace is a 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. The operation of strace is made possible by the kernel feature known as ptrace.

Some Unix-like systems provide other diagnostic tools similar to strace, such as truss.

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