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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?

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  • 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
    – barlop
    Commented Dec 23, 2011 at 4:38
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    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.
    – cmorse
    Commented Dec 29, 2011 at 17:28
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    @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).
    – Benoit
    Commented Dec 31, 2011 at 16:59
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    @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.
    – barlop
    Commented Mar 15, 2015 at 17:50
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    @barlop Yeah, good point. I might just start using "gratis" from now on to avoid confusion.
    – cmorse
    Commented Mar 19, 2015 at 20:26

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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

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    I'm not seeing where YAPM does the same thing that Process Monitor does. It looks more like an alternative to Process Explorer instead.
    – afrazier
    Commented Jan 19, 2012 at 18:03
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You could try Process History, to record process starting and stopping as Process monitor does. Which is open source based on WTL, SQLite and Boost, Process Hacker.

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