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		zokier on April 4, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Sysdig, a tool for Linux system explorati... I feel like some introductory article about the different instrumentation facilities available for Linux systems would be welcome. Just checking wikipedia and google, I found the following items: SystemTap, Dprobes, LTTng, DTrace, strace, ltrace (and latrace), ktap, utrace, ftrace, kprobes, jprobes. And now we have sysdig too.

zokier on April 4, 2014 [–]

Replying to myself; found this http://www.brendangregg.com/linuxperf.html page which does at least some sort of summary of the tools

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