What is Sysdig?

Before we start to get into Sysdig, let's first understand what it is. When I first heard about the tool, I thought to myself that it sounded too good to be true; the website describes the tool as follows:

"Sysdig is open source, system-level exploration: capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze. Sysdig is scriptable in Lua and includes a command line interface and a powerful interactive UI, csysdig, that runs in your terminal. Think of sysdig as strace + tcpdump + htop + iftop + lsof + awesome sauce. With state of the art container visibility on top."

This is quite a claim as all the tools that it is claiming to be as powerful were all in a set of goto commands to run when looking into problems, so I was a little skeptical at first.

As any one who has had to try and track down a haywire process of try and track down an issue that isn't being very verbose in its error logs on a Linux server will know that using tools such...