THE VIDEO SHELF · dynamic tracing
Dtrace Review
A 2007 Google Tech Talk in which Bryan Cantrill demonstrates DTrace and explains how it improves debugging of both development and live production systems.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as the DTrace creator's own demonstration and a reference for dynamic tracing.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Google TechTalks
- Topic
- dynamic tracing
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2011–2021
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
Similar experience here, except that I've solved similar issues (and far more complicated issues) with DTrace instead of strace. The range of information that DTrace can retrieve about a running application surpasses anything that strace can retrieve. DTrace can retrieve information on a systemic scale, …
nz on Hacker News · 2011-08
In Awesome but commonly unknown Linux Commands> Does anyone have any inside knowledge of when, if ever, DTrace might become a standard/official part of Linux? Never. Due to dtrace being licensed under the CDDL it will never be mainlined into the upstream kernel. I would be keen to point out this …
gbrown_ on Hacker News · 2016-08
In DTrace and Python
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.