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ktrace logo ktrace

Kernel process trace logging for the individual processes.

SystemTap logo SystemTap

SystemTap provides instrumentation for a live running kernel and user-space applications.
  • ktrace Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-06-19
  • 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 ktrace and SystemTap)

ktrace

SystemTap

Log Management
100 100%
Log Management
0% 0
IDE
0 0%
IDE
100% 100
Monitoring Tools
51 51%
Monitoring Tools
49% 49
OS & Utilities
19 19%
OS & Utilities
81% 81

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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.

ktrace mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of ktrace yet. Tracking of ktrace 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: almost 3 years ago

What are some alternatives?

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

ftrace - A function tracer for the Linux kernel.

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

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

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

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

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

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