# dellis23/ispy

Monitor the output of terminals and processes.

Repository: https://github.com/dellis23/ispy
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/dellis23-ispy
Language: Python
License: GPL-2.0
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2015-12-22T17:19:12+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3909, "days_push": 3907, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1011, forks 37 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:13.096080+00:00)

## What it is
ispy is a Python CLI tool that uses ptrace to monitor and display the output of running terminals and processes by attaching to a given PID. It is a small experimental utility, not intended for production use.

## Use cases
- watch the output of another user's terminal session
- monitor output of a backgrounded process
- debug what a running process is writing to its terminal
- observe terminal activity similar to strace
- spy on a process by PID

## When to choose
- you need to see what a running process is writing to a terminal on Linux
- you want a quick ptrace-based alternative to strace for watching output
- you're doing a lightweight learning exercise about ptrace

## When to avoid
- you need production-grade or mission-critical monitoring
- you're on macOS or an unsupported OS
- you can't tolerate the performance overhead of ptrace
- you need an actively maintained tool

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: abandoned
- function: monitoring, cli, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, operating-systems
- platform: cli, python
- tags: ptrace, terminal-monitoring, process-debugging, strace-like, command-line, linux

## Member repositories
- dellis23/ispy (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:13.096080+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:11:49.851652+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/dellis23/ispy (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:13.096080+00:00, sha bc6d4a58db3c)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/ispy/json (fetched 2026-08-29T13:11:36.681396+00:00, sha ad06c6559d05)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.