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Awesome DTrace
A curated list of awesome DTrace books, articles, videos, tools and resources.
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Books
Official DTrace book.
A book introduces both DTrace and SystemTap.
Other
DTrace one liners from FreeBSD.
A collection of advanced tips for using DTrace.
PID Provider
DTrace PID Provider Arguments.
DTrace PID Provider Instructions.
PID providers internals by Adam Leventhal.
PID provider bug deep dive by Bryan Cantrill.
USDT provider
DTrace ustack helpers.
Reference for building USDT providers in custom applications.
Sysevent provider
Solaris/illumos sysevent provider for DTrace.
Ruby and DTrace
Mutex contention measuring in Ruby.
Visualization methods
Visualization of profiled software, allowing the most frequent code-paths to be identified quickly and accurately.
Heat maps allow three dimensions of data to be visualized, similar to weather radar maps where color is used as a dimension.
Videos
Bryan Cantrill explains how to significantly improve debugging both for development and live systems with DTrace.
dtrace.conf
Erlang
Lua
libusdt bindings for Lua
Node.js
Native DTrace probes for node.js apps
Perl
Devel: :Provider - Perl wrapper for libusdt
PHP
Python
Python libusdt bindings
Ruby
Native DTrace probes for ruby apps
Databases
Webservers
DTrace provider for Apache
Visualization
Stack trace visualizer
Stacktrace visualization tools
Tools
Some DTrace tools written for the SmartOS/SmartDataCenter cloud (illumos-based)
report top-level postgres stats
trace event port activity
tools for storage servers
A collection of useful documented DTrace scripts.
Community
FreeBSD DTrace community mailing list.