Android File Monitoring

Lately I been doing some Android reversing so I have been trying to catch up on the latest Android tools. I immediately tried to find the SysInternal's tool equivalent on Android. Process monitor/File monitor/Registry monitor is a very powerfull anaytic tool that I use all the time on Windows.

Here is what I found for Android

1. logcat
2. strace
3. application specific instrumentation/injection
• Frida
• DBI
4. inotify/FileObserver - monitor specific file/directory for filesystem events
5. systrace
6. fsmon - monitor specific file/directory for filesystem events
   

Wanting to expand my search, I also looked at Linux

1. auditd
2. strace/ptrace/dtrace
3. htop 
• includes lsof
• includes strace
• includes perfmon
4. top
5. lsof
6. inotify
7. kprobes
8. perf
9. Monks- Procmon alternative for Linux - most promising for Linux

TLDR; so in conclusion I did not find anything that was a equivalent replacement for Android, the closest was Monks for Linux.

Please comment if I am missing something obvious.

If I see enough interest/page hits/comments, I will write one, I will probably write one any way ...

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