Watchdog

Watchdog is a Rust application that monitors specific processes on your system and logs their start and end events. It uses the sysinfo crate to gather process information and logs the events to a file.

Dependencies

• chrono: For handling date and time.
• serde: For serializing and deserializing data.
• sysinfo: For retrieving system information.
• toml: For parsing the settings file.
• csv: For writing CSV file

Configuration

The application reads its configuration from a settings.toml file located in the root directory. The file should contain a list of process names to monitor:

process_names = ["anki"]
log_path = "./logs/watchdog.csv"

Usage

To run the application, use the following command:

cargo run

The application will start monitoring the processes specified in the settings.toml file and log their start and end events to watchdog.log.

Logging

The log file watchdog.csv contains entries for each process start and end event. Each entry includes the event type, timestamp, process ID, start time, process name, and command line.

Log is located at logs folder

Set delimeter with loggerinstance.with_delimeter(";") and set custom settings (f.e.: log rotation config) with loggerinstance.with_config(LogConfig{max_file_size: 10 * 1024 * 1024, rotation_count: 5})

Example log entry:

event;pid;name;cmd;timestamp;start_time;seconds
start;29326;anki;/Applications/Anki.app/Contents/MacOS/anki;1738766581;1738766581;0
start;29326;anki;/Applications/Anki.app/Contents/MacOS/anki;1738766601;1738766581;20