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Very cool. One of the things I would love to be able to do is to track all file reads and writes that traverse a network connection. You can kind of do this using a combination of fs_usage/iftop/lsof in the moment but it's rough. Can Sloth or something like little snitch do it?

Sometimes I'll see my network spike via menumeters but I have no idea what caused it. Was it Google drive syncing something? Something else? What files were accessed?

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This is one of those no-brainer features that really should ship by default with any machine.

As it happens, there are GUIs that kinda do this, though not intentionally. Charles Proxy comes close, though the interface was a bit rough the last time I used it (2016).

Does istat menus not show this? Is it just not detailed enough? I guess some stuff like backups show up under “kernel”…

Charles Web Proxy will still feel a bit like 2016, not that much changed unter last few years. But it still works and does all the things it needs.

Not quite what you were describing, but perhaps Netiquette [0] would be of help here?

[0] https://objective-see.org/products/netiquette.html

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