witr — Why Is This Running?

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witr is a Go CLI/TUI tool that answers "why is this running?" for any process, service, or port. Instead of leaving you to correlate ps, lsof, ss, systemctl, and docker ps manually, witr makes the causality chain explicit — showing where a running thing came from, how it was started, and what chain of supervisors/containers/shells is responsible.

Installation

Quickest (Unix)

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pranshuparmar/witr/main/install.sh | bash

Quickest (Windows PowerShell)

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pranshuparmar/witr/main/install.ps1 | iex