osandov/drgn

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2082 stars · 217 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

drgn is a programmable debugger that exposes program types and variables for expressive Python scripting, originally developed at Meta for debugging the Linux kernel. It also works as a library for building debugging and introspection tools for the kernel and userspace C programs.

Use cases

• debug the linux kernel from a python script
• introspect kernel memory structures like module lists
• build custom debugging and introspection tools
• inspect live userspace C program state
• analyze kernel crash dumps programmatically
• script complex debugging tasks instead of using gdb commands

When to choose

• you need to debug or introspect the Linux kernel with rich scripting
• you want to automate debugging of complex interconnected program state
• you're building custom debugging tools on top of a debugger library

When to avoid

• you need a general-purpose interactive debugger with a GUI
• you primarily debug languages other than C/C++
• you need Windows or macOS kernel debugging support

Facets

library · maturity active

developer-tools developer-tools operating-systems python cli debugger kernel-debugging introspection linux-kernel memory-analysis crash-analysis debugging scripting linux

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