Red Canary Mac Monitor

[cmcconomy]

The website makes it extremely difficult to figure out how to download it;

https://redcanary.com/mac-threat-analysis-tool/

[detrites]

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:

https://github.com/redcanaryco/mac-monitor/releases

[krautsourced]

I kinda felt the big red 'Download package' button gave it away?

Also: `brew install --cask red-canary-mac-monitor`

[tanelpoder]

"Mac Monitor is practically the macOS version of the Microsoft Sysinternals tool Procmon."

[wnolens]

If true, then I'm in love. Procmon and procexp have saved my ass multiple times over when I was a windows developer.

[datavirtue]

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]

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]

In red!

[spockz]

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.

[saagarjha]

You should use a profiler for this.

[2c2c2c]

I got excited hearing the comparison to procmon, misremembering it for process explorer.

Is there a mac equivalent to process explorer?

[kbd]

Activity Monitor is the closest built-in: https://support.apple.com/guide/activity-monitor/welcome/mac

[billbrown]

Sloth might help - https://sveinbjorn.org/sloth

(It's been ages since I used Process Explorer so I'm just going off memory.)

[mjmsmith]

Activity Monitor will show you all the open files and ports for a process.

[jasonm23]

For the HN audience I would expect the GitHub link would be more useful than the .... Whatever that page is supposed to be.

https://github.com/redcanaryco/mac-monitor

[syngrog66]

neither red, nor a canary, nor a monitor, nor a canary monitor