Comparing SystemTap and bpftrace
Comparing SystemTap and bpftrace
[Development] Posted Apr 13, 2021 19:59 UTC (Tue) by ema
There are times when developers and system administrators need to diagnose problems in running code. The program to be examined can be a user-space process, the kernel, or both. Two of the major tools available on Linux to perform this sort of analysis are SystemTap and bpftrace. SystemTap has been available since 2005, while bpftrace is a more recent contender that, to some, may appear to have made SystemTap obsolete. However, SystemTap is still the preferred tool for some real-world use cases.