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Jul 17 - Jul 23, 2017

Community / Ruby

• FreeBSD DTrace mailing list - FreeBSD DTrace community mailing list.

Oct 31 - Nov 06, 2016

Ruby and DTrace

• Using DTrace to measure mutex contention in Ruby - Mutex contention measuring in Ruby.

Sep 12 - Sep 18, 2016

Other

• Advanced DTrace Tips, Tricks and Gotchas - A collection of advanced tips for using DTrace.

Aug 08 - Aug 14, 2016

Visualization methods

• Flamegraphs - A visualization of profiled software, allowing the most frequent code-paths to be identified quickly and accurately.

• Heat Maps - Heat maps allow three dimensions of data to be visualized, similar to weather radar maps where color is used as a dimension.

Visualization / Ruby

• FlameGraph (⭐14k) - Stack trace visualizer.

• node-stackvis (⭐341) - Stack trace visualizer.

Jul 25 - Jul 31, 2016

Books

• Dynamic Tracing Guide - Illumos.org DTrace guide.

• DTrace: Dynamic Tracing in Oracle Solaris, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD - Official DTrace book.

• Dynamic Tracing with DTrace & SystemTap - A book introduces both DTrace and SystemTap.

PID Provider

• pid provider: entry probe - DTrace PID Provider.

• pid provider: entry arguments - DTrace PID Provider Arguments.

• pid provider: return - DTrace PID Provider return.

• pid provider: instructions - DTrace PID Provider Instructions.

• pid provider: overhead - DTrace PID Provider Overhead.

• pid provider exposed - PID providers internals by Adam Leventhal.

• When magic collides - PID provider bug deep dive by Bryan Cantrill.

USDT provider

• USDT Providers Redux - Reference for building USDT providers in custom applications.

dtrace.conf

• dtrace.conf 2016
  • Introduction
  • (Useful!) DTrace intro
  • CTF Everywhere!
  • Distributed DTrace
  • DTracign Apps
  • DTrace and JSON: Together at last!
  • ASSERT() as a DTrace probe (and why I need some help)
  • Implementing (or not) fds[] in FreeBSD
  • OpenDTrace
  • DTrace Performance Improvements with Always-on Instrumentation
  • D language improvements
  • D Syntactic Sugar
  • DTrace and Go
  • DTrace and Postgres
  • DTrace in the Zone
  • DTrace ustack() performance improvements
  • DTrace Exploitation

Programming languages / Lua

• lua-usdt (⭐6) - Libusdt bindings for Lua.

Programming languages / Node.js

• node-dtrace-provider (⭐314) - Native DTrace probes for Node.js apps.

Programming languages / Python

• python-usdt (⭐7) - Libusdt bindings for Python.

Tools / Ruby

• DTraceToolkit - A collection of useful documented DTrace scripts.

• pgsql tools (⭐129) - Report top-level PostgreSQL stats.

• portsnoop (⭐3) - Trace event port activity.

• storage tools (⭐31) - Report NFS, CIFS and iSCSI stats.

Jul 04 - Jul 10, 2016

Other

• Using DTrace stories (⭐22) - A collection of using DTrace to debug system stories.

Community / Ruby

• China DTrace - A Chinese DTrace site.

Jun 27 - Jul 03, 2016

Sysevent provider

• DTrace sysevent provider - Solaris/illumos sysevent provider for DTrace.

dtrace.conf

• dtrace.conf 2008
  • NFSv3 and iSCSI providers
  • DTrace for hardware
  • Zones & DTrace
  • DTracing a Solaris build
  • War Stories
  • Sun Benchmarks
  • Erlang
  • Erlang (continued)
  • Instrumenting Adobe AIR
  • HotSpot Runtime & Java
  • PostgreSQL: Looking Under the Hood with Solaris
  • PostgreSQL Provider
  • Distributed DTrace
  • Apple Port of DTrace

• dtrace.conf 2012
  • DTrace State of the Union
  • User-Level CTF
  • Dynamic Translators
  • Clang Parser for DTrace
  • Visualizations
  • Visualizations, Enabling Toolchain for Seamless USDT
  • More Visualizations
  • DTrace in Node.js
  • DTrace and Erlang
  • DTrace on Linux
  • ZFS Provider
  • DTrace on FreeBSD
  • Barriers to DTrace Adoption

Programming languages / Erlang

• Erlang - DTrace and Erlang/OTP.

Programming languages / PHP

• PHP - Using PHP and DTrace.

Programming languages / Python

• Python - DTrace patch for Python 2.7.x and 3.x.

May 30 - Jun 05, 2016

Other

• dtrace(1m) man page - DTrace manual page.

• DTrace cheatsheet - DTrace cheatsheet by Brendan Gregg.

• DTrace one-liners - DTrace one liners. Handy commands.

• DTrace one-liners (FreeBSD) - DTrace one liners from FreeBSD.

• DTrace QuickStart - DTrace quick starting guide.

USDT provider

• Understanding DTrace ustack helpers - DTrace ustack helpers.

Videos

• DTrace review - Bryan Cantrill explains how to significantly improve debugging both for development and live systems with DTrace.

Programming languages / Perl

• perl-Devel-DTrace-Provider (⭐2) - Perl wrapper for libusdt.

Programming languages / Ruby

• Ruby - Ruby DTrace probes.

• ruby-usdt (⭐25) - Native DTrace probes for ruby apps.

Databases / Ruby

• MySQL - MySQL DTrace probes.

• PostgreSQL - PostgreSQL DTrace probes.

Webservers / Ruby

• mod_usdt (⭐18) - "httpd" DTrace provider.

Tools / Ruby

• dtrace-cloud-tools (⭐197) - DTrace tools written for the SmartOS/SmartDataCenter cloud (illumos-based).

Community / Ruby

• Community site - DTrace community site.

• Mailing list - DTrace community mailing list.