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really? i have to use procman and associated utilities often and they really pale in comparison with linux and even moreso other unix utils (like dtrace)

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Windows Server 2025 supports dtrace out of the box: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrat...

This really is the weirdest timeline…

But is it like the "real" dtrace or is like how PowerShell wget isn't actually wget but an alias for Invoke-WebRequest?

Two seconds of investigation yields that it is a port of dtrace.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/d...

Well, true, but I'm not in a position to understand what that means. I remember talks about dtrace in Linux way back when and something about how "it's not the same thing, you have to add support in all of userspace which is not there" or something like that.

dtrace is more comparable to ETW in windows land. Procmon is more for quick and dirty analysis. Maybe there are other *nix tools that are more appropriate, but I look forward to trying this one out.

Care to expand on that? I'm similarly just forced to use Linux and its tooling ecosystem, so decent chances I'm simply missing what's cool/cooler.

yes. I work with ancient and opaque tools that dont have good debugging / reporting facilities. Often we have to jump into procmon or whatever see why the heck the thing is stuck. something like strace is native and everywhere and you can sus out easily - hey this proc is trying to open this thing over and over.

procmon is cool, but i have found it limited when the program isnt doing anything 'obvious', and also that i have to download it and run it from the web is a problem when debugging on client systems.

really? One of the things I miss when using linux is resmon. I have not found anything that has even remotely the same functionality. For example seeing which process is using which files.

You can do that with sysdig.

There’s multiple tools.

For your stated issue, see lsfd

https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/lsfd.1.html

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