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system monitoring

SHOW HN2020

164points
28comments
#363of 3,028 in 2020
Top 12%of 2020 by points

How HN took it

DebatedReal support and real criticism

3 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score -0.09.

Idea: 2 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against

The thread, comment by comment

Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.

positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

What HN said

What people liked

  • Useful UI with filtering and search

    From 1 comment
    • Dtrace focuses on syscall level information which can flood the user with information. It is fantastic for debugging and getting extreme detail on a single application. The goal…
      suprhackersteve on HN
  • Works without disabling System Integrity Protection

    From 1 comment
    • It actually works and doesn't require disabling System Integrity Protection.
      saagarjha on HN

Objections

  • Requires macOS 10.15 Catalina, limiting its appeal

    From 2 comments
    • macOS 10.15 only? That's going to limit its appeal. Many people are staying away from that version for the foreseeable future.
      nutjob2 on HN
    • Counterpoint to the counterpoint: many people have to (stay away) even if they don't want to. For instance, in the audio world, the majority of audio hardware is still…
      aldanor on HN

Requests

  • Option to display timestamps in ISO 8601 format

    From 1 comment
    • Very cool. One nit: maybe an option to display timestamps in human-readable ISO 8601 format?
      oefrha on HN
  • Window should be resizable to smaller sizes

    From 1 comment
    • Nice! One problem - I'm unable to resize the window and make it smaller.
      krtkush on HN

Questions

  • How is this better than DTrace?

    From 1 comment
    • How is this better than Dtrace? Looks cool though
      sgt on HN

Alternatives named

  • DTrace

    From 1 comment
    • How is this better than Dtrace? Looks cool though
      sgt on HN

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