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We've compiled a list of 7 free and paid alternatives to ftrace. The primary competitors include ltrace, perf. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between ftrace and ktap, strace, DTrace. Also you can look at other similar options here: Development Tools.
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ltrace intercepts and records dynamic library calls which are called by an executed process and the...
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Instrument CPU performance counters, tracepoints, kprobes, and uprobes (dynamic tracing).
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Trace system calls and signals. A diagnostic, debugging and instructional userspace utility.
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DTrace is a performance analysis and troubleshooting tool for Solaris, Mac OS X and FreeBSD.
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A function tracer for the Linux kernel.
A function tracer for the Linux kernel.
Linux
Ftrace is an internal tracer designed to help out developers and
designers of systems to find what is going on inside the kernel.
It can be used for debugging or analyzing latencies and
performance issues that take place outside of user-space.
Although ftrace is typically considered the function tracer, it
is really a frame work of several assorted tracing utilities.
There's latency tracing to examine what occurs between interrupts
disabled and enabled, as well as for preemption and from a time
a task is woken to the task is actually scheduled in.
One of the most common uses of ftrace is the event tracing.
Through out the kernel is hundreds of static event points that
can be enabled via the debugfs file system to see what is
going on in certain parts of the kernel.
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