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If you find yourself developing or debugging D-Bus services or applications which use them, you might find some of these tools useful.
## Command-line
### Calling remote APIs
`dbus-send`, distributed with D-Bus, allows you to invoke methods on services from the command line. `gdbus` and `qdbus`, shipped with GLib and Qt respectively, provide (arguably) nicer command-line syntax and output for essentially the same task.
### Monitoring bus traffic
`dbus-monitor`, distributed with D-Bus, prints out traffic on the bus. You can filter the output by passing [[match rules|http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html#message-bus-routing-match-rules]] as arguments.
The `gdbus monitor` subcommand lets you monitor a particular remote object.
## Graphical
### D-Feet
Shows the object hierarchy exposed by running services, allowing you to call the methods you see. [[More information.|https://live.gnome.org/DFeet]]
### Bustle
Records D-Bus traffic (like dbus-monitor) and shows it as a sequence diagram, with built-in filtering and statistics. [[More information.|http://www.willthompson.co.uk/bustle/]]
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