SystemTap
Sign in to saveIn computing, SystemTap () is a scripting language and tool for dynamically instrumenting running production Linux-based operating systems. System administrators can use SystemTap to extract, filter and summarize data in order to enable diagnosis of complex performance or functional problems.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- application software
- Platform
- Linux
- Official website
- sourceware.org/systemtap
- Has use
- tracing
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- programmed in
- Q2407
- copyright license
- GNU General Public License
- operating system
- Linux
- source code repository URL
- git://sourceware.org/git/systemtap.git
- software version identifier
- 1.0
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- History
- Usage
- Simple examples
- Importing scripts from other tracing technologies
- See also
- References
- External links
In computing, SystemTap () is a scripting language and tool for dynamically instrumenting running production Linux-based operating systems. System administrators can use SystemTap to extract, filter and summarize data in order to enable diagnosis of complex performance or functional problems.
SystemTap consists of free and open-source software and includes contributions from Red Hat, IBM, Intel, Hitachi, Oracle, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and other community members.
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