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Welcome to the sysdig wiki!

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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• For support using sysdig, please see the documentation below, contact the official mailing list, or join our public slack channel.
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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](Getting Started) - how to start using sysdig right now.

Overview

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

Setup

• [Install Sysdig (standard Linux version)](How to Install Sysdig for Linux)
• [Install Sysdig (limited Windows/OSX version)](How to Install Sysdig for Windows and OSX)
• [Latest Packages] (Latest Packages)
• [Compile the Source Code](How to Install Sysdig from the Source Code)
• [Update/Uninstall Sysdig](Sysdig Update and Uninstall)

Sysdig Documentation

• [User Guide](Sysdig User Guide)
• Manual Page
• [Cool Examples](Sysdig 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](Csysdig View Format Reference)

Chisels Documentation

• [User Guide](Chisels User Guide)
• [How to Write a Chisel](Writing a Sysdig Chisel, a Tutorial)
• [Chisel API Reference Manual](Sysdig Chisel API Reference Manual)
• [Container Enabled Chisels](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)