[HN Gopher] Red Canary Mac Monitor
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Red Canary Mac Monitor
Author : tanelpoder
Score : 142 points
Date : 2023-05-02 13:28 UTC (9 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (redcanary.com)
| 2c2c2c wrote:
| I got excited hearing the comparison to procmon, misremembering
| it for process explorer.
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| Is there a mac equivalent to process explorer?
| billbrown wrote:
| Sloth might help - https://sveinbjorn.org/sloth
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| (It's been ages since I used Process Explorer so I'm just going
| off memory.)
| kbd wrote:
| Activity Monitor is the closest built-in:
| https://support.apple.com/guide/activity-monitor/welcome/mac
| mjmsmith wrote:
| Activity Monitor will show you all the open files and ports for
| a process.
| tanelpoder wrote:
| "Mac Monitor is practically the macOS version of the Microsoft
| Sysinternals tool Procmon."
| wnolens wrote:
| If true, then I'm in love. Procmon and procexp have saved my
| ass multiple times over when I was a windows developer.
| datavirtue wrote:
| I got excited and clicked the link expecting to see a fancy new
| display of the same quality as Apple but cheaper. So
| disappointed.
| wffurr wrote:
| Same. I was looking for an affordable 5k 32" monitor that can
| actually do 2X scaling properly. A neat tool, but not what "Mac
| Monitor" brings to mind for me.
| currency wrote:
| In red!
| tracker1 wrote:
| Could have been from the same company that makes the cameras.
| cmcconomy wrote:
| The website makes it extremely difficult to figure out how to
| download it;
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| https://redcanary.com/mac-threat-analysis-tool/
| detrites wrote:
| Thank you, where did you find that page? I'm still looking.
|
| The github at least is linked at the articles end and has this:
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| https://github.com/redcanaryco/mac-monitor/releases
| jhowison wrote:
| The posting links to the blog post about the tool, but if you
| click on Mac Monitor at the bottom of the page under Products
| and Solutions it takes you to the actual page for the tool
| and that page has the big red download button everyone is
| talking about..
| mdaniel wrote:
| Relevant: https://github.com/redcanaryco/mac-monitor#can-you-
| open-sour...
| cmcconomy wrote:
| I clicked the subtle 'Red Canary Mac Monitor' link at the
| start of their news text. I couldn't find it from their
| homepage either.
| krautsourced wrote:
| I kinda felt the big red 'Download package' button gave it
| away?
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| Also: `brew install --cask red-canary-mac-monitor`
| drcongo wrote:
| I don't have a big red 'Download package' button. The only
| large red button I see on the submitted article says 'Get a
| Demo'.
| krautsourced wrote:
| Sorry, my mistake, you were referring to the blog post and
| I was thinking of the product page...
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| spockz wrote:
| Initially the blog post mentions all kind of analysis that can be
| done including performance but later on it is mostly about
| security/threat analysis. Can I use this to find why my programs
| have such different execution times on two different machines
| with practically the same hardware? One is stock macOS the other
| corporate managed.
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