Linux and Unix have always had powerful, low level tools capable of telling you exactly what your computer system is doing (strace, DTrace, systemtap, top, ps). But these tools often have complex user interfaces, and platform differences, that mean not everyone has the time to master them. This article is all about several new tools that aim to not just be powerful debugging tools, but to provide a pleasant user interface too.
Facter is a simple inventory application providing a single, cross-platform interface to a range of structured data about your system. Everything; from network interfaces to available hardware and operating system version is available.
osquery is a new open source tool from Facebook that exposes low level details of your system via a familiar SQL interface. Want to query for processes listening on a given network interface? Or for