OS: Examples below given for Linux but could be generally useful to other OSes using whatever features they provide
Type: new-api
Description
A system monitoring API for tracking events like processes being created and exiting.
There are a number of LInux kernel features that could be of use in implementing this and that are implemented by some of the existing third-party tools for this purpose. See e.g. https://natanyellin.com/posts/tracking-running-processes-on-linux/ for an overview. The process accounting option (as used by acct) is another one. https://github.com/ColinIanKing/forkstat is an example of a basic implementation using the netlink process connector.
At the moment, the closest thing with psutils would seem to be just polling psutil.pids().
Summary
Description
A system monitoring API for tracking events like processes being created and exiting.
There are a number of LInux kernel features that could be of use in implementing this and that are implemented by some of the existing third-party tools for this purpose. See e.g. https://natanyellin.com/posts/tracking-running-processes-on-linux/ for an overview. The process accounting option (as used by
acct) is another one. https://github.com/ColinIanKing/forkstat is an example of a basic implementation using the netlink process connector.At the moment, the closest thing with psutils would seem to be just polling
psutil.pids().