# TRACE-CMD(1) Manual Page

## NAME

trace-cmd - interacts with Ftrace Linux kernel internal tracer

## SYNOPSIS

trace-cmd COMMAND [OPTIONS]

## DESCRIPTION

The trace-cmd(1) command interacts with the Ftrace tracer that is built inside the Linux kernel. It interfaces with the Ftrace specific files found in the debugfs file system under the tracing directory. A COMMAND must be specified to tell trace-cmd what to do.

## COMMANDS

    record  - record a live trace and write a trace.dat file to the
              local disk or to the network.

    set     - set a ftrace configuration parameter.

    report  - reads a trace.dat file and converts the binary data to a
              ASCII text readable format.

    stream  - Start tracing and read the output directly

    profile - Start profiling and read the output directly

    hist    - show a histogram of the events.

    stat    - show tracing (ftrace) status of the running system

    options - list the plugin options that are available to *report*

    start   - start the tracing without recording to a trace.dat file.

    stop    - stop tracing (only disables recording, overhead of tracer
              is still in effect)

    restart - restart tracing from a previous stop (only effects recording)

    extract - extract the data from the kernel buffer and create a trace.dat
              file.

    show    - display the contents of one of the Ftrace Linux kernel tracing files

    reset   - disables all tracing and gives back the system performance.
              (clears all data from the kernel buffers)

    clear   - clear the content of the Ftrace ring buffers.

    split   - splits a trace.dat file into smaller files.

    list    - list the available plugins or events that can be recorded.

    listen  - open up a port to listen for remote tracing connections.

    agent   - listen on a vsocket for trace clients

    setup-guest - create FIFOs for tracing guest VMs

    restore - restore the data files of a crashed run of trace-cmd record

    snapshot- take snapshot of running trace

    stack   - run and display the stack tracer

    check-events - parse format strings for all trace events and return
                   whether all formats are parseable

    convert   - convert trace files

    attach   - attach a host trace.dat file to a guest trace.dat file

    dump    - read out the meta data from a trace file

## OPTIONS

-h, --help

  Display the help text.

Other options see the man page for the corresponding command.

## SEE ALSO

trace-cmd-record(1), trace-cmd-report(1), trace-cmd-hist(1), trace-cmd-start(1), trace-cmd-stop(1), trace-cmd-extract(1), trace-cmd-reset(1), trace-cmd-restore(1), trace-cmd-stack(1), trace-cmd-convert(1), trace-cmd-split(1), trace-cmd-list(1), trace-cmd-listen(1), trace-cmd.dat(5), trace-cmd-check-events(1), trace-cmd-stat(1), trace-cmd-attach(1)

## AUTHOR

Written by Steven Rostedt, <rostedt@goodmis.org>

## RESOURCES

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/trace-cmd/trace-cmd.git/

## COPYING

Copyright (C) 2010 Red Hat, Inc. Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL).