Strace – My Favourite Secret Weapon (2011)
No mention of overhead. strace can bring down your production environment -- it is not safe. This is why I wrote this:  http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2014-05-11/strace-wow-much-..."perf trace" has improved since I wrote that, and may well be mostly strace-equivalent (but without crippling overhead) in the latest Linux.