IPCDump | ipcdump is a tool for tracing interprocess communication

IPCDump is a Go library. IPCDump has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Permissive License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

ipcdump is a tool for tracing interprocess communication (IPC) on Linux. It covers most of the common IPC mechanisms -- pipes, fifos, signals, unix sockets, loopback-based networking, and pseudoterminals. It's a useful tool for debugging multi-process applications, and it's also a simple way to understand how the different moving parts in your system communicate with one another. ipcdump can trace both the metadata and the contents of this communication, and it's particularly well-suited to tracing IPC between short-lived processes, which can be difficult using traditional debugging tools, like strace or gdb. It also has some basic filtering capabilities to help you sift through large quantities of events. Most of the information ipcdump collects comes from BPF hooks placed on kprobes and tracepoints at key functions in the kernel, although it also fills in some bookkeeping from the /proc filesystem. To this end ipcdump makes heavy use of gobpf, which provides golang binding for the bcc framework.