This tool is used during development or debugging for monitoring dbus applications where the message exchanged between two or more applications , providing a visual representation when compared to the dbus-monitor.

Before using the bustle tool we need to use dbus monitor. Using the dbus-moitor in detail is explained here.However we focus on using dbus-monitor keeping bustle tool in focus.

Installing bustle on debian based linux can be done using

apt-get install bustle

Run the dbus monitor command to capture the logs .

Ex : dbus-monitor –pcap –session > 1.log

Run “bustle” on terminal to open bustle tool

Click on open existing log to load the pcap file generated from the dbus-monitor then the log is displayed in a graphical format with call sequence along with time taken for the method call.