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Life & fun · August 18, 2015

Csysdig – A customizable curses UI for sysdig

Linux system exploration and troubleshooting tool with first class support for containers - Csysdig Overview · draios/sysdig Wiki

Csysdig – A customizable curses UI for sysdig launched on August 18, 2015 with 15 votes, #1,433 of 3,588 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.

In plain words

Csysdig is a terminal-based system exploration and troubleshooting tool for Linux that combines the functionality of strace, tcpdump, htop, iftop, and lsof in one interface. It offers native support for containers, allowing users to monitor container activity cleanly alongside host system processes. Csysdig can run in its own container or directly on the host machine, providing complete visibility into system and container operations. It is included as part of the sysdig package.

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From the sources

Csysdig leverages the sysdig collection system, but exports it in a user interface that you can imagine as a combination of many popular command line monitoring tools: tools like strace, tcpdump, htop, iftop and lsof. Just like sysdig, csysdig natively supports containers - cleanly and elegantly. Run csysdig in its own container, or directly on the host machine, for full visibility into all the containers running on the machine. Csysdig is part of the sysdig package, so it will be included when you install sysdig on yourfrom github.com

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