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On this wiki, you can find information about sysdig, csysdig, and their APIs. If this is your first time hearing about sysdig, we recommend you start with the website.

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Sysdig Documentation Wiki

Sysdig is a universal system visibility tool with native support for containers:
~$ sysdig

Csysdig is a simple, intuitive, and fully customizable curses UI for sysdig:
~$ csysdig

Tracers let you track and measure spans of execution in a distributed software system

Getting Started

• Getting Started - how to start using sysdig right now.

Overview

• About Sysdig - Why we built it and what it can do.
• About Csysdig - The sysdig UI that will fill all of your command line monitoring needs.
• About Chisels - Scripting on top of sysdig.
• About Tracers - Measure spans of execution in your distributed software system.

Setup

• Install Sysdig (standard Linux version)
• Install Sysdig (limited Windows/OSX version)
• Latest Packages
• Compile the Source Code
• Update/Uninstall Sysdig

Sysdig Documentation

• User Guide
• Manual Page
• Cool Examples
• Helpful blog posts
  • Interpreting Sysdig Output
  • Understanding System Calls
  • Sysdig for Logs
  • Sysdig for ps, lsof, and netstat - plus time travel
  • Sysdig for Containers
  • Continuous Capture with File Rotation
  • Sysdig Tracers

Csysdig Documentation

• 3 minute overview video
• Manual Page
• Customizing and extending csysdig

Chisels Documentation

• User Guide
• How to Write a Chisel
• Chisel API Reference Manual
• Container Enabled Chisels

Releases

• List of sysdig releases

Integrations

• Ansible
• Puppet (source)
• Logstash config to parse sysdig output and ship it to ElasticSearch

Coding Conventions

• Sysdig User Level Coding Conventions

Other Resources

• English
  • Using Sysdig to Troubleshoot like a Boss (bencane.com)
  • How to Monitor and Troubleshoot a Linux server using sysdig (xmodulo.com)
  • An Introduction to facter, osquery and sysdig (sysadvent.blogspot.com)
• Spanish / Español
  • Sysdig ¿La Herramienta Definitiva del Sysadmin en Linux? (agente404.com)
  • Monitorización de aplicaciones con sysdig (forondarena.net)
• Portuguese / Português
  • LinuxTips: Entendendo e utilizando o Sysdig (youtube.com)
  • sysdig - exemplos de uso
• Russian / русский язык
  • Sysdig — инструмент для диагностики Linux-систем (blog.selectel.ru)
• Turkish / Türk
  • Sysdig: Sistem Seviyesi Analiz ve Sorun Giderme Aracı (syslogs.org)
• Chinese / 中文
  • 使用 sysdig 进行监控和调试 linux 机器(cizixs.com)