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ftrace logo ftrace

A function tracer for the Linux kernel.

SystemTap logo SystemTap

SystemTap provides instrumentation for a live running kernel and user-space applications.
  • ftrace Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-05-03
  • SystemTap Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-05-11

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Product Overviews: Using Systemtap

More videos:

  • Review - RHEL Developers: RHEL SystemTap Overview
  • Review - What is my system doing - Full System Observability with SystemTap

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to ftrace and SystemTap)

ftrace

SystemTap

OS & Utilities
69 69%
OS & Utilities
31% 31
IDE
67 67%
IDE
33% 33
Monitoring Tools
63 63%
Monitoring Tools
37% 37
Software Development
69 69%
Software Development
31% 31

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, SystemTap seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 3 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

ftrace mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of ftrace yet. Tracking of ftrace recommendations started around Mar 2021.

SystemTap mentions (3)

  • What are some tools to create code diagrams/graphs/(static or dynamic) call graphs when analyzing c++ code? Any level of automation would be useful here, but manual editing is also preferred. I see Visual Studio Code Graph but this is an option for Windows mainly. Doxygen, perftools?
    Eclipse seems to have a Callgraph plug-in (for execution traces), although it is based on SystemTap, which is only for Linux. Source: about 1 year ago
  • Valve Did the IMPOSSIBLE... Anti-Cheat on Linux - WAN Show September 24, 2021
    They can use DKMS or their own version of systemtap so not they don't have to release the code. Source: over 2 years ago
  • Frozenbyte are now telling Linux users to use Proton, even for their older games
    Since these are kernel anticheats I don't know how they're going to make it work though. Maybe BE and EAC will ship signed code that Valve lets run outside of the Win32 environment, possibly just as the root user or with their own version of systemtap to get into the kernel. Source: over 2 years ago

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ftrace and SystemTap, you can also consider the following products

perf - Perf is a simple app monitoring solution paired with meaningful alerts.

strace - Trace system calls and signals. A diagnostic, debugging and instructional userspace utility.

DTrace - DTrace is a performance analysis and troubleshooting tool for Solaris, Mac OS X and FreeBSD.

ltrace - ltrace intercepts and records dynamic library calls which are called by an executed process and the...

Valgrind - Valgrind is an instrumentation framework for building dynamic analysis tools.

ktap - A script-based dynamic tracing tool for Linux.

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