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The website makes it extremely difficult to figure out how to download it;

https://redcanary.com/mac-threat-analysis-tool/

I kinda felt the big red 'Download package' button gave it away?

Also: `brew install --cask red-canary-mac-monitor`

I don't have a big red 'Download package' button. The only large red button I see on the submitted article says 'Get a Demo'.

Sorry, my mistake, you were referring to the blog post and I was thinking of the product page...

No worries, I was wondering if we were being A/B tested!

Thank you, where did you find that page? I'm still looking.

The github at least is linked at the articles end and has this:

https://github.com/redcanaryco/mac-monitor/releases

I clicked the subtle 'Red Canary Mac Monitor' link at the start of their news text. I couldn't find it from their homepage either.

Relevant: https://github.com/redcanaryco/mac-monitor#can-you-open-sour...

The posting links to the blog post about the tool, but if you click on Mac Monitor at the bottom of the page under Products and Solutions it takes you to the actual page for the tool and that page has the big red download button everyone is talking about..

"Mac Monitor is practically the macOS version of the Microsoft Sysinternals tool Procmon."

If true, then I'm in love. Procmon and procexp have saved my ass multiple times over when I was a windows developer.

I got excited and clicked the link expecting to see a fancy new display of the same quality as Apple but cheaper. So disappointed.

In red!

Could have been from the same company that makes the cameras.

Same. I was looking for an affordable 5k 32" monitor that can actually do 2X scaling properly. A neat tool, but not what "Mac Monitor" brings to mind for me.

> do 2X scaling properly

What do you mean by this? If you're looking for clean pixel doubling/nearest neighbour scaling AMD, NVidia and Intel all support it on the GPU now with driver settings on Windows, but sadly I don't know of any monitors that will do it and I'm not sure what driver support is like on mac.

With usable screen space. Pixel doubling on a 4k 32” display leaves you with just 1080p effective resolution. Everything is way too big. It would be fine at 24”, but it’s not useful at 32”. At 32” I want 1440p at least.

Initially the blog post mentions all kind of analysis that can be done including performance but later on it is mostly about security/threat analysis. Can I use this to find why my programs have such different execution times on two different machines with practically the same hardware? One is stock macOS the other corporate managed.

You should use a profiler for this.

I got excited hearing the comparison to procmon, misremembering it for process explorer.

Is there a mac equivalent to process explorer?

Activity Monitor is the closest built-in: https://support.apple.com/guide/activity-monitor/welcome/mac

Activity Monitor will show you all the open files and ports for a process.

Sloth might help - https://sveinbjorn.org/sloth

(It's been ages since I used Process Explorer so I'm just going off memory.)

For the HN audience I would expect the GitHub link would be more useful than the .... Whatever that page is supposed to be.

https://github.com/redcanaryco/mac-monitor

neither red, nor a canary, nor a monitor, nor a canary monitor

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