awesome-dtrace
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A curated list of awesome DTrace books, articles, videos, tools and resources.
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DTrace guide
A curated collection of DTrace resources and guides
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Learn / Books
- Dynamic Tracing Guide
Illumos.org DTrace guide
- DTrace: Dynamic Tracing in Oracle Solaris, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD
Official DTrace book
- Dynamic Tracing with DTrace & SystemTap
A book introduces both DTrace and SystemTap
Learn / Other
- dtrace(1m) man page
DTrace manual page
- DTrace cheatsheet
DTrace cheatsheet by Brendan Gregg
- DTrace one-liners
DTrace one liners. Handy commands
- DTrace one-liners (FreeBSD)
DTrace one liners from FreeBSD
- DTrace QuickStart
DTrace quick starting guide
Using DTrace stories
A collection of using DTrace to debug system stories
- Advanced DTrace Tips, Tricks and Gotchas
A collection of advanced tips for using DTrace
Articles / PID Provider
- pid provider: entry probe
DTrace PID Provider
- pid provider: entry arguments
DTrace PID Provider Arguments
- pid provider: return
DTrace PID Provider return
- pid provider: instructions
DTrace PID Provider Instructions
- pid provider: overhead
DTrace PID Provider Overhead
- pid provider exposed
PID providers internals by Adam Leventhal
- When magic collides
PID provider bug deep dive by Bryan Cantrill
Articles / USDT provider
- Understanding DTrace ustack helpers
DTrace ustack helpers
- USDT Providers Redux
Reference for building USDT providers in custom applications
Articles / Sysevent provider
- DTrace sysevent provider
Solaris/illumos sysevent provider for DTrace
Articles / Ruby and DTrace
- Using DTrace to measure mutex contention in Ruby
Mutex contention measuring in Ruby
Articles / Visualization methods
- Flamegraphs
A visualization of profiled software, allowing the most frequent code-paths to be identified quickly and accurately
- Heat Maps
Heat maps allow three dimensions of data to be visualized, similar to weather radar maps where color is used as a dimension
Videos
- DTrace review
Bryan Cantrill explains how to significantly improve debugging both for development and live systems with DTrace
Videos / dtrace.conf
Software / Programming languages
- Erlang
DTrace and Erlang/OTP
lua-usdt
Libusdt bindings for Lua
Native DTrace probes for Node.js apps
Perl wrapper for libusdt
- PHP
Using PHP and DTrace
- Python
DTrace patch for Python 2.7.x and 3.x
python-usdt
Libusdt bindings for Python
- Ruby
Ruby DTrace probes
ruby-usdt
Native DTrace probes for ruby apps
Software / Databases
- MySQL
MySQL DTrace probes
- PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL DTrace probes
Software / Webservers
mod_usdt
"httpd" DTrace provider
Software / Visualization
FlameGraph
Stack trace visualizer
Stack trace visualizer
Tools
- DTraceToolkit
A collection of useful documented DTrace scripts
DTrace tools written for the SmartOS/SmartDataCenter cloud (illumos-based)
Report top-level PostgreSQL stats
Trace event port activity
storage tools
Report NFS, CIFS and iSCSI stats
Community
- Community site
DTrace community site
- Mailing list
DTrace community mailing list
- FreeBSD DTrace mailing list
FreeBSD DTrace community mailing list
- China DTrace
A Chinese DTrace site
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