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.