Proctor

A toolkit enabling deep introspection of various aspects of software, from source code to runtime. Proctor contains the libraries used in Arctir's platform services. Atop these libraries is a CLI that acts as a client enabling users to easily try-out and leverage the power of these introspection tools.

Proctor may be particularly helpful to a developer, SRE, or devops humans wishing to quickly introspect aspects of their software and stacks. For a quickstart and few examples, see our examples docs.

Our intent with proctor is to share libraries with the open source community, help folks build other introspection-oriented tooling atop, and get feedback on our ideas and approaches.

Install

As a CLI

At this time, there is no official package manager support for proctor and you need to compile from source (using go install). To install proctor with the go tool, run:

go install github.com/arctir/proctor/proctor@latest

This will place the proctor binary, for your target architecture, in $GOBIN. If desired, move proctor to your $PATH.

As a library

Within the pkg directory are multiple libraries. To use these libraries in your own Go project(s), you can import them via go mod. For example, here's how you could import plib, our process library responsible for introspection of various operating-system's execution abstraction:

go get github.com/arctir/proctor/pkg/plib

Similarly, the Go doc describing this library are available at pkg.go.dev.

Once installed, run proctor help or visit our documentation for details on usage.

Development

Run make help to see development tasks.

Feel free to open issues and/or pull requests.