I/O Cartographer

Welcome to the I/O Cartographer project site! A Qt front-end for visualizing and exploring straced file I/O telemetry. Tired of using grep to mitigate the fire-hose of information that strace spits out? Use this tool to help make sense of it using an interactive UI.

Download

Download the latest alpha, released on (October 31, 2025) 🎃:

​I/O Cartographer @ 0.2.3a

Change Log

Here is a brief list of changes over recent versions. For a complete log with detailed information, and if you have developer access to this Trac project, then refer to the timeline for a commit history.

Version	Changes
v0.2.3a	Fixed a stale UI state issue related to path exclusions
v0.2.2a	Improved process selector user experience, and added timing duration of disk events to record history
v0.0.4a	Removed erroneous reporting of "memfd:" sources (as depicted above)
v0.0.3a	Corrected missing description of "File Type" column in "Record Search" help documentation
v0.0.2a	Added missing "System-D" package to the project definition so that it installs automatically
v0.0.1a	Introduction of I/O Cartographer! 🥳🎉

Installing

Prerequisites

• Python & Python Dev @ v3.10
  • NOTE: If your system is running a version of Python other than 3.10 you may have to install this wheel inside a Python 3.10 virtual env instead.

Procedure

I/O Cartographer is packaged as a Python wheel. To install it (and all of its dependencies) simply run pip like so (depending on what version you have downloaded):

pip install IOCartographer-<version>.whl

Product Help

Help for using the application can be found within the application itself. This includes a browse-able help center, context-sensitive help, and tool-tips.

Submitting Feedback

If you want to submit feedback for improving I/O Cartographer, including submitting bug reports, please consider filing a new ticket.

Licensing

Please refer to the menu Help → License inside the application for the End-User License Agreement.