Network Intelligence Research Center (NIRC)

Aug 27, 2026 · Operations

WITR: Why Is This Running? A Tool That Traces Process Causality, Not Just State

WITR is an open-source troubleshooting tool that unifies Linux process, port, file, and service queries into a single ancestry chain, showing not just what is running but why—via process parentage, systemd, containers, and Git context—with JSON output for automation.