STREAMING ---------------- [Last updated: 2012-07-17 by David Goulet] This is a brief howto for network streaming feature of lttng 2.0 toolchain. See the README.md file for installation procedure or use the various Linux distribution packages. Terminology: * The "target" is the traced machine (either UST or/and kernel tracer) * The "remote" is the machine that receives the traces over network streaming transport layer. Basics: Here are the basic concepts of the new streaming component. We use two network ports for that called _control_ and _data_ respectively defined by default to 5342 and 5343. The control port is where the commands AND metadata data are sent since this stream is considered to be the reliable and priority transport channel. The data port is the stream which transports the tracing raw data. In order to gather traces from the network, the remote machine MUST have a lttng-relayd running on it bound to network interfaces remotely reachable by the target. [remote] $ lttng-relayd -d (to daemonize) [remote] $ lttng-relayd -vvv (foreground with debug output) [remote] $ lttng-relayd -C tcp://0.0.0.0:1234 -D tcp://0.0.0.0:5678 (control port set to TCP/1234 and data port to TCP/5678 on all IP addresses) For now, only TCP is supported on IPv4/IPv6. Once done, the following examples shows you how to start streaming from the target machine to the remote host where we just started a lttng relay. Example 1: ---------------- Simple and quick network streaming. 1) Create a tracing session that will be streamed over the network for the specified domain. This session will contain, in our example, syscall events. # lttng create syscall-session 2) Enable the consumer to send data over the network for the kernel domain. # lttng enable-consumer --kernel net:// You can also skip this step and directly use the lttng create command like so: # lttng create -U net:// syscall-session 3) Set and start the tracing. Nothing new here. # lttng enable-event -a --syscall -k # lttng start (wait and get coffee) # lttng stop By default on the relay side, the trace will be written to the lttng-traces/ directory of the relayd user in: hostname/session-name/kernel/* The -o option of lttng-relayd allows the user to override the default output path. Just run babeltrace or lttng view -t PATH with the previous path. Example 2: ---------------- This example uses all possible options to fine grained control the streaming. 1) Again, create a tracing session that will be streamed over the network for the specified domain. # lttng create syscall-session 2) Set relayd URIs for the tracing session and kernel domain. ONLY set the remote relayd URIs (both control and data at the same destination and using default ports) on the consumer but does not enable the consumer to use network streaming yet. # lttng enable-consumer -k -U net:// You can also set both control and data URIs using -C and -D respectively for that like so: # lttng enable-consumer -k -C tcp:// -D tcp:// 3) Enable the consumer previously setup with the relayd URIs. This enables the previous network destination. From this point on, the consumer is ready to stream once tracing is started. # lttng enable-consumer -k --enable 4) Set and start the tracing. Nothing new here. # lttng enable-event -a --syscall -k # lttng start (wait and get coffee) # lttng stop Again, run babeltrace as mentioned in the previous example on the relayd side. For more information, please read the --help options of each command or the man pages lttng(1) and the lttng-relayd(8)