process-life-and-death-monitor

This program monitors running processes and highlights information about their creation and termination.

• Displays a list of processes that have command names or arguments or current directory that match the specified query.
• The display is refreshed at regular intervals,
• with newly created processes in blue and terminated processes in red.

Installation

You can install the tool using pip:

pip install process-life-and-death-monitor

Or

pip install git+https://github.com/tos-kamiya/process-life-and-death-monitor

To uninstall:

pip uninstall process-life-and-death-monitor

Usage

Run the following command to use this program.

process-life-and-death-monitor [-i INTERVAL] [-l DURATION] [-x CMDNAME]... query

Command-line arguments and options

-i --interval INTERVAL set the interval between checks (in seconds), default is 0.5

-l --highlight DURATION set the duration to highlight the results (in seconds), default is 3.0

-x --cmd-exclude CMDNAME add a command name to ignore

query a pattern (regular expression) to identify processes to watch

Examples

To monitor processes that contain the word "python", run the following command.

process-life-and-death-monitor "python"

To exclude processes that contain the word "grep", run the following command.

process-life-and-death-monitor -x "grep" "python"

Screenshots

In gnome terminal on Linux Mint

In cmd.exe on Windows

License

This program is licensed under the BSD 2-Clause License. See the LICENSE file for more information.