API Monitor AlternativesProcess Monitoring Tools and other similar apps like API Monitor

API Monitor is described as 'Windows program that lets you monitor and control API calls made by applications and services. Its a powerful tool for seeing how applications and services work or for tracking down problems that you have in your own applications' and is a process monitoring tool in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to API Monitor for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Android and BSD apps. The best API Monitor alternative is Process Monitor, which is free. Other great apps like API Monitor are Valgrind, SpyStudio, lurk and WinAPIOverride.

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  1. Process Monitor icon

    Process Monitor

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    Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity. It combines the features of two legacy Sysinternals utilities, Filemon and Regmon, and adds an extensive list of enhancements including rich and...

    55 Process Monitor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    Only monitors (some) system calls, not win32 APIs.

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    • Process Monitor is the most popular Windows alternative to API Monitor.

    • Process Monitor is the most popular free alternative to API Monitor.

    • Process Monitor is Free and ProprietaryAPI Monitor is also Free and Proprietary
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    Valgrind

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    Valgrind is an instrumentation framework for building dynamic analysis tools. There are Valgrind tools that can automatically detect many memory management and threading bugs, and profile your programs in detail. You can also use Valgrind to build new tools.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Android
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    • Valgrind is the most popular Android, Mac & Linux alternative to API Monitor.

    • Valgrind is the most popular Open Source alternative to API Monitor.

    • Valgrind is Free and Open SourceAPI Monitor is Free and Proprietary
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    SpyStudio

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    SpyStudio is the best product to trace user-mode API calls on Windows. SpyStudio is an Application tracer which shows and interprets calls, displaying the results in a structured way which is easy for any IT professional to understand.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. lurk

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    Lurk allows the user to trace system calls of a process or of a command. In contrast to strace, lurk focuses on a simple, yet pretty, user experience while implementing the most important use cases of strace.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    WinAPIOverride

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    This software allows you to monitor and/or modify any function of a process for any calling convention (stdcall or cdecl).

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. strace

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    strace is a diagnostic, debugging and instructional userspace utility for Linux. It is used to monitor interactions between processes and the Linux kernel, which include system calls, signal deliveries, and changes of process state.

    15 strace alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
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  9. ltrace

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    ltrace intercepts and records dynamic library calls which are called by an executed process and the signals received by that process. It can also intercept and print the system calls executed by the program. Used for debugging.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
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    ApproveAPI

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    ApproveAPI? is a developer API for requesting a user's real-time approval on anything via Email, SMS, and in-app Mobile Push notifications with a consistent tap-to-approve user experience.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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    • ApproveAPI is the most popular Web-based alternative to API Monitor.

    • ApproveAPI is the most popular commercial alternative to API Monitor.

    • ApproveAPI is Paid and ProprietaryAPI Monitor is Free and Proprietary
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    JTracer

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    C++ exception (and generic) stack trace debug suite.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Java Mobile
    • Android Tablet
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    • JTracer is the most popular Android Tablet alternative to API Monitor.

    • JTracer is Free and Open SourceAPI Monitor is Free and Proprietary
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    Libcsdbg

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    Libcsdbg is a C++ exception stack tracer. When an exception is thrown, caught and handled, libcsdbg offers the tools to create and process the exception stack trace, the path the exception has propagated up the call stack, unwinding it, up to the section were it was handled.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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