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 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.

Bustle

Records D-Bus traffic (like dbus-monitor) and shows it as a sequence diagram, with built-in filtering and statistics. More information.