doc/man/lttng-relayd.8

   1 .TH "LTTNG-RELAYD" "8" "July 15, 2012" "" ""
   2
   3 .SH "NAME"
   4 lttng-relayd \(em LTTng remote trace collection daemon
   5
   6 .SH "SYNOPSIS"
   7
   8 .PP
   9 .nf
  10 lttng-relayd [OPTIONS]
  11 .fi
  12 .SH "DESCRIPTION"
  13
  14 .PP
  15 The LTTng project aims at providing highly efficient tracing tools for Linux.
  16 It's tracers help tracking down performance issues and debugging problems
  17 involving multiple concurrent processes and threads. Tracing across multiple
  18 systems is also possible.
  19
  20 The relay daemon listens by default on all network interfaces to gather
  21 trace data, but only on localhost for viewer connections. This daemon
  22 does not require any particular permissions as long as it can write in
  23 the output folder and listen on the ports. If a user is within a secured
  24 network and/or has proper firewall settings, lttng-relayd can listen to
  25 viewer connections from all network interfaces by specifying '-L
  26 tcp://0.0.0.0:5344'.
  27
  28 Traces can be either viewed "live" (as they are produced) by attaching
  29 to the live viewer port using LTTng live protocol, or after tracing has
  30 been stopped. Once a trace has been streamed completely, the trace can
  31 be processed by any tool that can process a local LTTng CTF trace.
  32
  33 By default, the relayd outputs the traces in :
  34 ~/lttng-traces/hostname/session-name/domain-name
  35
  36 The prefix (~/lttng-traces) can be configured on the relayd side (see below for
  37 the option), the other folders can be configured when creating the trace on the
  38 sessiond side.
  39 .SH "OPTIONS"
  40
  41 .PP
  42 This program follow the usual GNU command line syntax with long options starting with
  43 two dashes. Below is a summary of the available options.
  44 .PP
  45
  46 .TP
  47 .BR "-h, --help"
  48 Show summary of possible options and commands
  49 .TP
  50 .BR "-v, --verbose"
  51 Increase verbosity
  52
  53 There is three debugging level which will print on stderr. Maximum verbosity is
  54 \fB-vvv\fP.
  55 .TP
  56 .BR "-d, --daemonize"
  57 Start as a daemon
  58 .TP
  59 .BR "-b, --background"
  60 Start as a daemon, keeping console open
  61 .TP
  62 .BR "-g, --group NAME"
  63 Specify the tracing group name. (default: tracing)
  64 .TP
  65 .BR "-C, --control-port"
  66 Control port URL (tcp://0.0.0.0:5342 is the default)
  67 .TP
  68 .BR "-D, --data-port"
  69 Data port URL (tcp://0.0.0.0:5343 is the default)
  70 .TP
  71 .BR "-L, --live-port URL"
  72 Live view port URL (tcp://localhost:5344 is the default).
  73 .TP
  74 .BR "-o, --output"
  75 Output base directory. Must use an absolute path (~/lttng-traces is the default)
  76 .TP
  77 .BR "-V, --version"
  78 Show version number
  79 .SH "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES"
  80
  81 .PP
  82 .IP "LTTNG_NETWORK_SOCKET_TIMEOUT"
  83 Control timeout of socket connection, receive and send. Takes an integer
  84 parameter: the timeout value, in milliseconds. A value of 0 or -1 uses
  85 the timeout of the operating system (this is the default).
  86 .IP "LTTNG_RELAYD_HEALTH"
  87 File path used for relay daemon health check communication.
  88 .PP
  89
  90 .SH "SEE ALSO"
  91
  92 .PP
  93 babeltrace(1), lttng-sessiond(8), lttng-ust(3), lttng(1)
  94 .PP
  95
  96 .SH "LIMITATIONS"
  97
  98 .PP
  99 For now only TCP is supported on both control and data port.
 100 Control will always remain TCP-only since it is low-volume and needs absolutely
 101 to be reliable, but eventually the data connection could support UDP.
 102
 103 For unprivileged user running lttng-relayd, the maximum number of file
 104 descriptors per process is usually 1024. This limits the number of connections
 105 and tracefiles opened. This limit can be configured see ulimit(3).
 106 .PP
 107
 108 .SH "BUGS"
 109
 110 .PP
 111 No show stopper bugs are known yet in this version.
 112
 113 If you encounter any issues or usability problem, please report it on our
 114 mailing list <lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org> to help improve this project.
 115 .SH "CREDITS"
 116
 117 .PP
 118 lttng-relayd is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2. See the
 119 file COPYING for details.
 120 .PP
 121 A Web site is available at http://lttng.org for more information on the LTTng
 122 project.
 123 .PP
 124 You can also find our git tree at http://git.lttng.org.
 125 .PP
 126 Mailing lists for support and development: <lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org>.
 127 .PP
 128 You can find us on IRC server irc.oftc.net (OFTC) in #lttng.
 129 .PP
 130 .SH "AUTHORS"
 131
 132 .PP
 133 lttng-relay was originally written by Julien Desfossez and
 134 David Goulet. More people have since contributed to it. It is currently
 135 maintained by Julien Desfossez <jdesfossez@efficios.com>.
 136 .PP