witr

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What it does

An editorial selection.

"Why is this running?" Traces any process, port, container or file back to the chain that started it. Output as a TUI or JSON.

Why it is listed

A small tool that saves debugging time on servers and laptops. Has a browser sandbox to try it.

GitHub describes it as: Why is this running? Trace any process, port, container, or file back to what started it - CLI + TUI.

Counts were observed on 27/10/2026, 23:15:40 UTC. Observations older than 36 hours are excluded from current movement rankings.

Repository at a glance

Stars: 22,813
Forks: 806
Open issues: 1
Merged PRs: 121
Commits, last 30 days: 46
Stars, 7 days: unavailable
Stars, 30 days: unavailable

Counts observed on 27/10/2026, 23:15:40 UTC. Growth uses complete dated windows; see Methodology.

History

History: 2 observations, 2026-10-27 to 2026-10-28. Dots are observations; lines connect consecutive daily observations only.

Project details

Language: Go
Licence: Apache-2.0
Created: 20 Dec 2025
Last push: 23 Oct 2026
Latest release: v0.3.4 · 4 Oct 2026
Category: Developer Tools
Topics: cli devops freebsd golang linux macos observability sysadmin troubleshooting tui
Observed: 2026-10-27 23:15:40 UTC

Explore and get started

Use the project's own documentation for supported platforms, dependencies and installation steps. The README and release notes are maintained by pranshuparmar.

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Development context

These are observations of work in the repository. They do not establish quality, security or support commitments.

Total commits on default branch: 647
Open pull requests: 2
Closed issues, lifetime: 88
Median time to close an issue: 29.9 days
Median time to merge a pull request: 5.3 days

Close and merge times use up to 20 most recently updated closed issues or merged pull requests. They omit unresolved work and are context, not a maintenance score. Sample limits.

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