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An Overview of DTrace

DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework for the Solaris™ Operating Environment. DTrace provides a powerful infrastructure to permit administrators, developers, and service personnel to concisely answer arbitrary questions about the behavior of the operating system and user programs.

The Solaris™ Dynamic Tracing Guide describes how to use DTrace to observe, debug and tune system behavior. The Solaris™ Dynamic Tracing (DTrace) Guide (here), also includes a complete reference for bundled DTrace observability tools and the D programming language.

For Users:

  • dynamically enable and manage thousands of probes
  • dynamically associate predicates and actions with probes
  • dynamically manage trace buffers and probe overhead
  • examine trace data from a live system or from a system crash dump

For Solaris™ Developers:

  • implement new trace data providers that plug into DTrace
  • implement trace data consumers that provide data display
  • implement tools that configure DTrace probes

For more information check out the out scripts and documentation.

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