Measurement Flow Tracing Tools

This section provides a quick overview of the tools used to trace measurement flows of the meter plugin measurement pathway.

lsof

List open files provides the ability to report on the list of open files and the processes that opened them. See lsof for details and examples of use.

pgrep

Searches for Unix/Linux processes using patters or regular expressions. See pgrep for additional details.

strace

Used to monitor interactions between processes and the Linux kernel similar to truss. See strace for usage details.

netstat

Displays information about network connections, routing tables, and network protcol statistics. See netstat which describes usage.