e5e1f170565de2408d48b068824e76ce1926324e
[lttng-tools.git] / doc / quickstart.txt
1 QUICKSTART
2 --------------
3
4 This is a quick start guide for the complete LTTng tool chain. This is divided
5 in three sections respectively Kernel tracing, user-space tracing and reading a
6 trace.
7
8 See the README file for installation procedure or use the various Linux
9 distribution packages.
10
11 In order to trace the Kernel, you'll need the lttng-modules >= 2.0 compiled and
12 installed. See http://lttng.org/content/lttng-kernel-tracer for more
13 instructions for that part. For user-space tracing, you'll need an instrumented
14 application, please see http://lttng.org/ust
15
16 lttng-tools provide a session daemon (ltt-sessiond) that acts as a tracing
17 registry. To trace any instrumented applications or the kernel, a registered
18 tracing session is needed.
19
20 To interact with the session daemon and a tracing session, you can use the
21 lttng command line UI (lttng).
22
23 The next sections explain how to do tracing :)
24
25 Kernel Tracing
26 --------------
27
28 You have to modprobe the lttng-modules manually or the session daemon will do
29 it for you if they can be found on your system.
30
31 You can then start the session daemon by hand or the lttng command line tool
32 will do it for you.
33
34 List possible kernel events:
35
36 # lttng list -k
37
38 1) Create a tracing session. A .lttngrc will be created in $HOME containing
39 the session name (here 'mysession') you are working on.
40
41 # lttng create mysession
42
43 2) Enable event(s). Here for example, we want only 'sched_switch' and
44 'sys_enter' events for the kernel (-k/--kernel).
45
46 # lttng enable-event sched_switch,sys_enter -k
47
48 or enable ALL events (-a/--all):
49
50 # lttng enable-event -a -k
51
52 3) Start tracing:
53
54 # lttng start
55
56 Tracing is in progress at this point and will be written in
57 $HOME/lttng-traces/mysession-<date>-<time>
58
59 4) Stop tracing:
60
61 # lttng stop
62
63 5) Destroy your session after you are done with tracing
64
65 # lttng destroy
66
67 User-space Tracing
68 --------------
69
70 User-space tracer 2.0 not released at this point. You'll have to use 'ustctl'
71 to control user-space tracing.
72
73 Reading a trace
74 --------------
75
76 To read your trace, you'll need babeltrace which will text dump your the trace.
77 Please see http://www.efficios.com/ctf and git tree
78 http://git.efficios.com/?p=babeltrace.git
79
80 # babeltrace -n $HOME/lttng-traces/mysession-<date>-<time> | less
81
82 VoilĂ !
This page took 0.031721 seconds and 3 git commands to generate.