 | Why is this running
witr exists to answer a single question:
Why is this running?
When something is running on a system — whether it is a process, a service,
or something bound to a port — there is always a cause. That cause is often
indirect, non-obvious, or spread across multiple layers such as supervisors,
containers, services, or shells.
Existing tools (ps, top, lsof, ss, systemctl, docker ps) expose state and
metadata. They show what is running, but leave the user to infer why by
manually correlating outputs across tools.
witr makes that causality explicit.
It explains where a running thing came from, how it was started, and what
chain of systems is responsible for it existing right now, in a single,
human-readable output. |