debugging-tools

A set of debugging tools so I can troubleshoot my running server.

The list of packages available in container is sorted by their relations.

Debugging packages related to networking

• bind-utils - Utilities for querying DNS name servers
• crash - Kernel analysis utility for live systems, netdump, diskdump
• ethtool - Settings tool for Ethernet NICs
• iproute - Advanced IP routing and network device configuration tools
• iptraf-ng - A console-based network monitoring utility
• iputils - Network monitoring tools including ping
• nagios - Host/service/network monitoring program
• net-tools - Basic networking tools
• netsniff-ng - Packet sniffing beast
• netstat-nat - A tool that displays NAT connections
• netstat-monitor - A command line tool to monitor network connections
• nmap-ncat - Nmap's Netcat replacement
• ntop - A network traffic probe similar to the UNIX top command
• sysstat - Collection of performance monitoring tools for Linux
• tcpdump - A network traffic monitoring tool
• vnstat - Console-based network traffic monitor

Debugging packages related to system

• btrfs-progs - Userspace programs for btrfs
• cacti - An rrd based graphing tool
• conky - A system monitor for X
• crash - Kernel analysis utility for live systems, netdump, diskdump
• hwloc - Portable Hardware Locality - portable abstraction of hierarchical
• lsof - A utility which lists open files on a Linux/UNIX system
• ostree - Tool for managing bootable, immutable filesystem trees
• parted - The GNU disk partition manipulation program
• pciutils - PCI bus related utilities
• pcp - System-level performance monitoring and performance management
• xfsprogs - Utilities for managing the XFS filesystem
• xorg-x11-xauth - X.Org X11 X authority utilities
• mailx - Enhanced implementation of the mailx command

Debugging packages related to C/C++

• blktrace - Utilities for performing block layer IO tracing in the Linux
• crash - Kernel analysis utility for live systems, netdump, diskdump
• iotop - Top like utility for I/O
• lsof - A utility which lists open files on a Linux/UNIX system
• ltrace - Tracks runtime library calls from dynamically linked executables
• htop - Interactive process viewer
• strace - Tracks and displays system calls associated with a running process
• valgrind - Tool for finding memory management bugs in programs
• gkrellm - Multiple stacked system monitors in one process

How to run the container for debugging

For running the container, use command:

docker run -it --name NAME --privileged --ipc=host --net=host --pid=host -e HOST=/host -e NAME=NAME -e IMAGE=IMAGE -v /run:/run -v /var/log:/var/log -v /etc/machine-id:/etc/machine-id -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime -v /:/host debugging-tools