Is there open source software which is to Process Monitor what ProcessHacker is to Process Explorer?

Question

Process Hacker is an open source alternative to the famous Process Explorer by Mark Russinovitch.

Is there in the same vein a piece of open source software that can be a serious alternative to Process monitor?

Solution

Yet Another Process Monitor is a very good open source alternative.

If you are particularly interested in taking a look at the code base, let me tell you, the code is a little messy at the moment. But its simple enough to understand whats going on under the hood.

The source code is available at sourceforge

Comments

[barlop]

at the moment I doubt it. Before process monitor , the closest thing was regmon and filemon, which were also sysinternals. and other than that people use uninstallers to monitor before and after a process runs. hope you find things though

[cmorse]

I'm curious why you're looking for an open source alternative to Process Explorer? It is, after all, totally free and I have had nothing but a good experience when using it.

[Benoit]

@cmorse: Several reasons: · I would like to see the code for curiosity · The license of Process Explorer is quite restrictive for the company I work for (no redistributing it for example).

[barlop]

@cmorse if you want to pre-empt the stallman fanatics taking issue of your use of the term free, or even acknowledge stallman in the topic of open source / libre software then a better phrase to use would be to say it "totally no cost". process explorer isn't libre but it is no cost.

[cmorse]

@barlop Yeah, good point. I might just start using "gratis" from now on to avoid confusion.