LTTNG-ENABLE-EVENT(1)

NAME
lttng-enable-event - Create or enable LTTng recording event rules

SYNOPSIS

Create or enable one or more recording event rules to match Linux kernel tracepoint or system call events:

lttng [GENERAL OPTIONS] enable-event --kernel [--tracepoint | --syscall]
      (--all | NAME[,NAME]...) [--filter=EXPR]
      [--session=SESSION] [--channel=CHANNEL]

Create or enable a recording event rule to match Linux kernel events created from a dynamic instrumentation point:

lttng [GENERAL OPTIONS] enable-event --kernel
      (--probe=LOC | --function=LOC | --userspace-probe=LOC) RECORDNAME
      [--session=SESSION] [--channel=CHANNEL]

Create or enable one or more recording event rules to match user space tracepoint events:

lttng [GENERAL OPTIONS] enable-event --userspace [--tracepoint]
      (--all | NAME[,NAME]...) [--exclude=XNAME[,XNAME]...]
      [--loglevel=LOGLEVEL | --loglevel-only=LOGLEVEL] [--filter=EXPR]
      [--session=SESSION] [--channel=CHANNEL]

Create or enable one or more recording event rules to match Java/Python logging events:

lttng [GENERAL OPTIONS] enable-event (--jul | --log4j | --log4j2 |
                                      --python)
      [--tracepoint] (--all | NAME[,NAME]...)
      [--loglevel=LOGLEVEL | --loglevel-only=LOGLEVEL] [--filter=EXPR]
      [--session=SESSION] [--channel=CHANNEL]

DESCRIPTION

The lttng enable-event command does one of:

    • Create one or more recording event rules.

    • Enable one or more disabled recording event rules.

    See the “Enable a disabled recording event rule” section below.

See lttng-concepts(7) to learn more about instrumentation points, events, recording event rules, and event records.

The recording event rule(s) to create or enable belong to:

With the --session=SESSION option
    The recording session named SESSION.

Without the --session option
    The current recording session (see lttng-concepts(7) to learn more about the current recording session).

With the --channel=CHANNEL option
    The channel named CHANNEL.

Without the --channel option
    The channel named channel0.

    If there’s already a channel for the selected recording session and domain which isn’t named channel0, the enable-event command fails. Otherwise, it automatically creates it.

See the “EXAMPLES” section below for usage examples.

List the recording event rules of a specific recording session and/or channel with the lttng-list(1) and lttng-status(1) commands.

Disable an enabled recording event rule with the lttng-disable-event(1) command.

  Overview of recording event rule conditions

For LTTng to emit and record an event E, E must satisfy all the conditions of a recording event rule ER, that is:

Explicit conditions
    You set the following conditions when you create or enable ER with the enable-event command:

        • The instrumentation point type from which LTTng creates E has a specific type.

        See the “Instrumentation point type condition” section below.

        • A pattern matches the name of E while another pattern doesn’t.

        See the “Event name condition” section below.

        • The log level of the instrumentation point from which LTTng creates E is at least as severe as some value, or is exactly some value.

        See the “Instrumentation point log level condition” section below.

        • The fields of the payload of E and the current context fields satisfy a filter expression.

        See the “Event payload and context filter condition” section below.

Implicit conditions

        • ER itself is enabled.

        A recording event rule is enabled on creation.

        Enable a disabled recording event rule with the enable-event command.

        • The channel to which ER is attached is enabled.

        A channel is enabled on creation.

        Enable a disabled channel with the lttng-enable-channel(1) command.

        • The recording session of ER is active (started).

        A recording session is inactive (stopped) on creation.

        Start an inactive recording session with the lttng-start(1) command.

        • The process for which LTTng creates E is allowed to record events.

        All processes are allowed to record events on recording session creation.

        Use the lttng-track(1) and lttng-untrack(1) commands to select which processes are allowed to record events based on specific process attributes.

The dedicated command-line options of most conditions are optional: if you don’t specify the option, the associated condition is always satisfied.

  Instrumentation point type condition

An event E satisfies the instrumentation point type condition of a recording event rule if the instrumentation point from which LTTng creates E is:

For the Linux kernel tracing domain (--kernel option)

    With the --tracepoint option or without any other instrumentation point type option
        An LTTng kernel tracepoint, that is, a statically defined point in the source code of the kernel image or of a kernel module with LTTng kernel tracer macros.

        As of LTTng 2.15.0, this is the default instrumentation point type of the Linux kernel tracing domain, but this may change in the future.

        List the available Linux kernel tracepoints with lttng list --kernel. See lttng-list(1) to learn more.

    With the --syscall option
        The entry and exit of a Linux kernel system call.

        List the available Linux kernel system call instrumentation points with lttng list --kernel --syscall. See lttng-list(1) to learn more.

    With the --probe option
        A Linux kprobe, that is, a single probe dynamically placed in the compiled kernel code.

        The argument of the --probe option is the location of the kprobe to insert, either a symbol or a memory address, while RECORDNAME is the name of the record of E (see the “Event record name” section below).

        The payload of a Linux kprobe event is empty.

    With the --userspace-probe option
        A Linux user space probe, that is, a single probe dynamically placed at the entry of a compiled user space application/library function through the kernel.

        The argument of the --userspace-probe option is the location of the user space probe to insert, one of:

            • A path and symbol (ELF method).

            • A path, provider name, and probe name (SystemTap User-level Statically Defined Tracing (USDT) method; a DTrace-style marker).

            As of LTTng 2.15.0, LTTng only supports USDT probes which are NOT reference-counted.

        RECORDNAME is the name of the record of E (see the “Event record name” section below).

        The payload of a Linux user space probe event is empty.

    With the --function option
        A Linux kretprobe, that is, two probes dynamically placed at the entry and exit of a function in the compiled kernel code.

        The argument of the --function option is the location of the Linux kretprobe to insert, either a symbol or a memory address, while RECORDNAME is the name of the record of E (see the “Event record name” section below).

        The payload of a Linux kretprobe event is empty.

For the user space tracing domain (--userspace option)

    With or without the --tracepoint option
        An LTTng user space tracepoint, that is, a statically defined point in the source code of a C/C++ application/library with LTTng user space tracer macros.

        As of LTTng 2.15.0, this is the default and sole instrumentation point type of the user space tracing domain, but this may change in the future.

        List the available user space tracepoints with lttng list --userspace. See lttng-list(1) to learn more.

For the java.util.logging (--jul option), Apache log4j 1.x (--log4j option), Apache Log4j 2 (--log4j2 option), and Python (--python option) tracing domains

    With or without the --tracepoint option
        A logging statement.

        As of LTTng 2.15.0, this is the default and sole instrumentation point type of the java.util.logging, Apache log4j 1.x, Apache Log4j 2, and Python tracing domains, but this may change in the future.

        List the available Java and Python loggers with lttng list --jul, lttng list --log4j, lttng list --log4j2, and lttng list --python. See lttng-list(1) to learn more.

  Event name condition

An event E satisfies the event name condition of a recording event rule ER if the two following statements are true:

    • You specify the --all option or, depending on the instrumentation type condition (see the “Instrumentation point type condition” section above) of ER, NAME matches:

    LTTng tracepoint
        The full name of the tracepoint from which LTTng creates E.

        Note that the full name of a user space tracepoint is PROVIDER:NAME, where PROVIDER is the tracepoint provider name and NAME is the tracepoint name.

    Logging statement
        The name of the Java or Python logger from which LTTng creates E.

    Linux system call
        The name of the system call, without any sys_ prefix, from which LTTng creates E.

    • You don’t specify the --exclude=XNAME[,XNAME]... option or, depending on the instrumentation type condition of ER, none of the XNAME arguments matches the full name of the user space tracepoint from which LTTng creates E.

    The --exclude option is only available with the --userspace option.

This condition is only meaningful for the LTTng tracepoint, logging statement, and Linux system call instrumentation point types: it’s always satisfied for the other types.

In all cases, NAME and XNAME are globbing patterns: the * character means “match anything”. To match a literal * character, use \*. To match a literal , character, use \,.

Important

    Make sure to single-quote NAME and XNAME when they contain the * character and when you run the enable-event command from a shell.

With the LTTng tracepoint, logging statement, and Linux system call instrumentation point types, the enable-event command creates or enables one independent recording event rule per NAME argument (non-option, comma-separated). With the --all option, the enable-event command creates or enables a single recording event rule.

  Instrumentation point log level condition

An event E satisfies the instrumentation point log level condition of a recording event rule if either:

    • The --loglevel and --loglevel-only options are missing.

    • The log level of the LTTng user space tracepoint or logging statement which creates E is:

    With the --loglevel=LOGLEVEL option
        At least as severe as LOGLEVEL.

    With the --loglevel-only=LOGLEVEL option
        Exactly LOGLEVEL.

This condition is only meaningful for the LTTng user space tracepoint and logging statement instrumentation point types: it’s always satisfied for other types.

The available values of LOGLEVEL are, depending on the tracing domain, from the most to the least severe:

User space (--userspace option)

        • EMERG (0)

        • ALERT (1)

        • CRIT (2)

        • ERR (3)

        • WARNING (4)

        • NOTICE (5)

        • INFO (6)

        • DEBUG_SYSTEM (7)

        • DEBUG_PROGRAM (8)

        • DEBUG_PROCESS (9)

        • DEBUG_MODULE (10)

        • DEBUG_UNIT (11)

        • DEBUG_FUNCTION (12)

        • DEBUG_LINE (13)

        • DEBUG (14)

java.util.logging (--jul option)

        • OFF (INT32_MAX)

        • SEVERE (1000)

        • WARNING (900)

        • INFO (800)

        • CONFIG (700)

        • FINE (500)

        • FINER (400)

        • FINEST (300)

        • ALL (INT32_MIN)

Apache log4j 1.x (--log4j option)

        • OFF (INT32_MAX)

        • FATAL (50000)

        • ERROR (40000)

        • WARN (30000)

        • INFO (20000)

        • DEBUG (10000)

        • TRACE (5000)

        • ALL (INT32_MIN)

Apache Log4j 2 (--log4j2 option)

        • OFF (0)

        • FATAL (100)

        • ERROR (200)

        • WARN (300)

        • INFO (400)

        • DEBUG (500)

        • TRACE (600)

        • ALL (INT32_MAX)

Python (--python option)

        • CRITICAL (50)

        • ERROR (40)

        • WARNING (30)

        • INFO (20)

        • DEBUG (10)

        • NOTSET (0)

  Event payload and context filter condition

An event E satisfies the event payload and context filter condition of a recording event rule if the --filter=EXPR option is missing or if EXPR is true.

This condition is only meaningful for the LTTng tracepoint and Linux system call instrumentation point types: it’s always satisfied for other types.

EXPR can contain references to the payload fields of E and to the current context fields.

Important

    Make sure to single-quote EXPR when you run the enable-event command from a shell, as filter expressions typically include characters having a special meaning for most shells.

The expected syntax of EXPR is similar to the syntax of a C language conditional expression (an expression which an if statement can evaluate), but there are a few differences:

    • A NAME expression identifies an event payload field named NAME (a C identifier).

    Use the C language dot and square bracket notations to access nested structure and array/sequence fields. You can only use a constant, positive integer number within square brackets. If the index is out of bounds, EXPR is false.

    The value of an enumeration field is an integer.

    When a field expression doesn’t exist, EXPR is false.

    Examples: my_field, target_cpu, seq[7], msg.user[1].data[2][17].

    • A $ctx.TYPE expression identifies the statically-known context field having the type TYPE (a C identifier).

    List the available statically-known context field names with the lttng-add-context(1) command. As of LTTng 2.15.0, context field names starting with perf: aren’t supported.

    When a field expression doesn’t exist, EXPR is false.

    Examples: $ctx.prio, $ctx.gid, $ctx.preemptible.

    • A $app.PROVIDER:TYPE expression identifies the application-specific context field having the type TYPE (a C identifier) from the provider PROVIDER (a C identifier).

    When a field expression doesn’t exist, EXPR is false.

    Example: $app.server:cur_user.

    • Compare strings, either string fields or string literals (double-quoted), with the == and != operators.

    When comparing to a string literal, the * character means “match anything”. To match a literal * character, use \*.

    Examples: my_field == "user34", my_field == my_other_field, my_field == "192.168.*".

    • The precedence table of the operators which are supported in EXPR is as follows. In this table, the highest precedence is 1:
    Precedence | Operator | Description | Associativity
    1 | - | Unary minus | Right-to-left
    1 | + | Unary plus | Right-to-left
    1 | ! | Logical NOT | Right-to-left
    1 | ~ | Bitwise NOT | Right-to-left
    2 | << | Bitwise left shift | Left-to-right
    2 | >> | Bitwise right shift | Left-to-right
    3 | & | Bitwise AND | Left-to-right
    4 | ^ | Bitwise XOR | Left-to-right
    5 | | | Bitwise OR | Left-to-right
    6 | < | Less than | Left-to-right
    6 | <= | Less than or equal to | Left-to-right
    6 | > | Greater than | Left-to-right
    6 | >= | Greater than or equal to | Left-to-right
    7 | == | Equal to | Left-to-right
    7 | != | Not equal to | Left-to-right
    8 | && | Logical AND | Left-to-right
    9 | || | Logical OR | Left-to-right

    Parentheses are supported to bypass the default order.

    Important
        Unlike the C language, the bitwise AND and OR operators (& and |) in EXPR take precedence over relational operators (<, <=, >, >=, ==, and !=). This means the expression 2 & 2 == 2 is true while the equivalent C expression is false.

    The arithmetic operators are NOT supported.

    LTTng first casts all integer constants and fields to signed 64-bit integers. The representation of negative integers is two’s complement. This means that, for example, the signed 8-bit integer field 0xff (-1) becomes 0xffffffffffffffff (still -1) once casted.

    Before a bitwise operator is applied, LTTng casts all its operands to unsigned 64-bit integers, and then casts the result back to a signed 64-bit integer. For the bitwise NOT operator, it’s the equivalent of this C expression:

        (int64_t) ~((uint64_t) val)

    For the binary bitwise operators, it’s the equivalent of those C expressions:

        (int64_t) ((uint64_t) lhs >> (uint64_t) rhs)
        (int64_t) ((uint64_t) lhs << (uint64_t) rhs)
        (int64_t) ((uint64_t) lhs & (uint64_t) rhs)
        (int64_t) ((uint64_t) lhs ^ (uint64_t) rhs)
        (int64_t) ((uint64_t) lhs | (uint64_t) rhs)

    If the right-hand side of a bitwise shift operator (<< and >>) is not in the [0, 63] range, then EXPR is false.

Note

    Use the lttng-track(1) and lttng-untrack(1) commands to allow or disallow processes to record LTTng events based on their attributes instead of using equivalent statically-known context fields in EXPR like $ctx.pid.

    The former method is much more efficient.

EXPR examples:

    msg_id == 23 && size >= 2048

    $ctx.procname == "lttng*" && (!flag || poel < 34)

    $app.my_provider:my_context == 17.34e9 || some_enum >= 14

    $ctx.cpu_id == 2 && filename != "*.log"

    eax_reg & 0xff7 == 0x240 && x[4] >> 12 <= 0x1234

  Event record name

When LTTng records an event E, the resulting event record has a name which depends on the instrumentation point type condition (see the “Instrumentation point type condition” section above) of the recording event rule which matched E:

LTTng tracepoint (--kernel/--userspace and --tracepoint options)
    Full name of the tracepoint from which LTTng creates E.

    Note that the full name of a user space tracepoint is PROVIDER:NAME, where PROVIDER is the tracepoint provider name and NAME is the tracepoint name.

java.util.logging logging statement (--jul and --tracepoint options)
    lttng_jul:event

    Such an event record has a string field logger_name which contains the name of the java.util.logging logger from which LTTng creates E.

Apache log4j 1.x logging statement (--log4j and --tracepoint options)
    lttng_log4j:event

    Such an event record has a string field logger_name which contains the name of the Apache log4j 1.x logger from which LTTng creates E.

Apache Log4j 2 logging statement (--log4j2 and --tracepoint options)
    lttng_log4j2:event

    Such an event record has a string field logger_name which contains the name of the Apache Log4j 2 logger from which LTTng creates E.

Python logging statement (--python and --tracepoint options)
    lttng_python:event

    Such an event record has a string field logger_name which contains the name of the Python logger from which LTTng creates E.

Linux system call (--kernel and --syscall options)

    Entry
        syscall_entry_NAME, where NAME is the name of the system call from which LTTng creates E, without any sys_ prefix.

    Exit
        syscall_exit_NAME, where NAME is the name of the system call from which LTTng creates E, without any sys_ prefix.

Linux kprobe (--kernel and --probe options), Linux user space probe (--kernel and --userspace-probe options)
    RECORDNAME (first non-option argument).

Linux kretprobe (--kernel and --function options)

    Entry
        RECORDNAME_entry

    Exit
        RECORDNAME_exit

  Enable a disabled recording event rule

The enable-event command can enable a disabled recording event rule, as listed in the output of the lttng-list(1) command.

You may enable a disabled recording event rule regardless of the activity (started or stopped) of its recording session (see lttng-start(1) and lttng-stop(1)).

To enable a disabled recording event rule, run the enable-event command with the exact same options and arguments that you used to create it. In particular, with the --filter=EXPR option, EXPR must be the exact same string as the one you used on creation.

OPTIONS

See lttng(1) for GENERAL OPTIONS.

  Tracing domain

One of:

-j, --jul
    Create or enable recording event rules in the java.util.logging (JUL) tracing domain.

-k, --kernel
    Create or enable recording event rules in the Linux kernel tracing domain.

-l, --log4j
    Create or enable recording event rules in the Apache log4j 1.x tracing domain.

--log4j2
    Create or enable recording event rules in the Apache Log4j 2 tracing domain.

-p, --python
    Create or enable recording event rules in the Python tracing domain.

-u, --userspace
    Create or enable recording event rules in the user space tracing domain.

  Recording target

-c CHANNEL, --channel=CHANNEL
    Create or enable recording event rules attached to the channel named CHANNEL instead of channel0.

-s SESSION, --session=SESSION
    Create or enable recording event rules in the recording session named SESSION instead of the current recording session.

  Instrumentation point type condition

See the “Instrumentation point type condition” section above.

At most one of:

--function=LOC
    Only match Linux kretprobe events.

    Only available with the --kernel option.

    LOC is one of:

        • A function address (0x hexadecimal prefix supported).

        • A function symbol name.

        • A function symbol name and an offset (SYMBOL+OFFSET format).

    You must specify the event record name with RECORDNAME. See the “Event record name” section above to learn more.

--probe=LOC
    Only match Linux kprobe events.

    Only available with the --kernel option.

    LOC is one of:

        • An address (0x hexadecimal prefix supported).

        • A symbol name.

        • A symbol name and an offset (SYMBOL+OFFSET format).

    You must specify the event record name with RECORDNAME. See the “Event record name” section above to learn more.

--userspace-probe=LOC
    Only match Linux user space probe events.

    Only available with the --kernel option.

    LOC is one of:

    [elf:]PATH:SYMBOL
        Probe an available symbol within a user space application or library.

        PATH
            Application or library path.

            One of:

                • An absolute path.

                • A relative path.

                • The name of an application as found in the directories listed in the PATH environment variable.

        SYMBOL
            Symbol name of the function of which to instrument the entry.

            SYMBOL can be any defined code symbol in the output of the nm(1) command, including with its --dynamic option, which lists dynamic symbols.

        As of LTTng 2.15.0, not specifying elf: is equivalent to specifying it, but this default may change in the future.

        Examples:

            • --userspace-probe=/usr/lib/libc.so.6:malloc

            • --userspace-probe=./myapp:createUser

            • --userspace-probe=elf:httpd:ap_run_open_htaccess

    sdt:PATH:PROVIDER:NAME
        Use a SystemTap User-level Statically Defined Tracing (USDT) probe within a user space application or library.

        PATH
            Application or library path.

            This can be:

                • An absolute path.

                • A relative path.

                • The name of an application as found in the directories listed in the PATH environment variable.

        PROVIDER, NAME
            USDT provider and probe names.

            For example, with the following USDT probe:

                DTRACE_PROBE2("server", "accept_request",
                              request_id, ip_addr);

            The provider/probe name pair is server:accept_request.

        Example: --userspace-probe=sdt:./build/server:server:accept_request

    You must specify the event record name with RECORDNAME. See the “Event record name” section above to learn more.

--syscall
    Only match Linux system call events.

    Only available with the --kernel option.

--tracepoint
    Only match:

    With the --kernel or --userspace option
        LTTng tracepoint events.

    With the --jul, --log4j, --log4j2, or --python option
        Logging events.

With the --kernel, not specifying any of the instrumentation point type options is equivalent to specifying the --tracepoint option, but this default may change in the future.

With the --userspace, --jul, --log4j, --log4j2, and --python options, not specifying the --tracepoint option is equivalent to specifying it, but this default may change in the future.

  Event name condition

See the “Event name condition” section above.

-a, --all
    Equivalent to a single NAME argument (LTTng tracepoint or logger name) set to * (match anything).

    You may NOT use this option with a NAME argument.

-x XNAME[,XNAME]..., --exclude=XNAME[,XNAME]...
    Only match events of which none of the XNAME arguments matches the full name of the LTTng user space tracepoint.

    Only available with the --userspace option.

    XNAME is a globbing pattern: the * character means “match anything”. To match a literal * character, use \*. To match a literal , character, use \,.

  Instrumentation point log level condition

See the “Instrumentation point log level condition” section above.

At most one of:

--loglevel=LOGLEVEL
    Only match events of which the log level of the LTTng tracepoint or logging statement is at least as severe as LOGLEVEL.

--loglevel-only=LOGLEVEL
    Only match events of which the log level of the LTTng tracepoint or logging statement is exactly LOGLEVEL.

The instrumentation point log level options above are NOT available with the --kernel option.

  Event payload and context filter condition

See the “Event payload and context filter condition” section above.

-f EXPR, --filter=EXPR
    Only match events of which EXPR, which can contain references to event payload and current context fields, is true.

    This option is only available with the --tracepoint or --syscall option.

  Program information

-h, --help
    Show help.

    This option attempts to launch /usr/bin/man to view this manual page. Override the manual pager path with the LTTNG_MAN_BIN_PATH environment variable.

--list-options
    List available command options and quit.

EXIT STATUS

0
    Success

1
    Command error

2
    Undefined command

3
    Fatal error

4
    Command warning (something went wrong during the command)

ENVIRONMENT

LTTNG_ABORT_ON_ERROR
    Set to 1 to abort the process after the first error is encountered.

LTTNG_HOME
    Path to the LTTng home directory.

    Defaults to $HOME.

    Useful when the Unix user running the commands has a non-writable home directory.

LTTNG_LIST_LEGACY
    Set to 1 to use the legacy output format (LTTng 2.14 and earlier) for the lttng-list(1) command instead of the modern output format.

    Note that the legacy output doesn’t show anything related to features introduced after LTTng 2.14.

LTTNG_MAN_BIN_PATH
    Absolute path to the manual pager to use to read the LTTng command-line help (with lttng-help(1) or with the --help option) instead of /usr/bin/man.

LTTNG_NO_UTF_8
    Set to 1 to NOT emit multi-byte UTF-8 sequences, even if the locale claims to support it.

LTTNG_SESSION_CONFIG_XSD_PATH
    Path to the directory containing the session.xsd recording session configuration XML schema.

LTTNG_SESSIOND_PATH
    Absolute path to the LTTng session daemon binary (see lttng-sessiond(8)) to spawn from the lttng-create(1) command.

    The --sessiond-path general option overrides this environment variable.

LTTNG_TERM_COLOR
    Controls when to emit terminal SGR codes in the output.

    The NO_COLOR environment variable overrides this.

    One of:

    auto (default)
        Only emit SGR codes when the standard output is connected to a color-capable terminal.

    always
        Always emit SGR codes.

    never
        Never emit SGR codes.

NO_COLOR
    If set and not empty, then it’s equivalent to setting LTTNG_TERM_COLOR to never.

    See NO_COLOR <https://no-color.org/> to learn more.

FILES

$LTTNG_HOME/.lttngrc
    Unix user’s LTTng runtime configuration.

    This is where LTTng stores the name of the Unix user’s current recording session between executions of lttng(1). lttng-create(1) and lttng-set-session(1) set the current recording session.

$LTTNG_HOME/lttng-traces
    Default output directory of LTTng traces in local and snapshot modes.

    Override this path with the --output option of the lttng-create(1) command.

$LTTNG_HOME/.lttng
    Unix user’s LTTng runtime and configuration directory.

$LTTNG_HOME/.lttng/sessions
    Default directory containing the Unix user’s saved recording session configurations (see lttng-save(1) and lttng-load(1)).

/usr/local/etc/lttng/sessions
    Directory containing the system-wide saved recording session configurations (see lttng-save(1) and lttng-load(1)).

Note

    $LTTNG_HOME defaults to the value of the HOME environment variable.

EXAMPLES

Example 1. Create a recording event rule which matches all Linux system call events (current recording session, default channel).

    See the --all and --syscall options.

        $ lttng enable-event --kernel --all --syscall

Example 2. Create a recording event rule which matches user space tracepoint events named specifically (current recording session, default channel).

    The recording event rule below matches all user space tracepoint events of which the name starts with my_provider:msg.

        $ lttng enable-event --userspace 'my_provider:msg*'

Example 3. Create three recording event rules which match Python logging events named specifically (current recording session, default channel).

        $ lttng enable-event --python server3,ui.window,user-mgmt

Example 4. Create a recording event rule which matches Apache log4j 1.x logging events with a specific log level range (current recording session, specific channel).

    See the --channel, --all, and --loglevel options.

        $ lttng enable-event --log4j --channel=my-loggers \
                             --all --loglevel=INFO

Example 5. Create a recording event rule which matches Apache Log4j 2 logging events with the specific WARN log level (current recording session, specific channel).

    See the --channel, --all, and --loglevel options.

        $ lttng enable-event --log4j2 --channel=my-loggers \
                             --all --loglevel-only=WARN

Example 6. Create a recording event rule which matches specific Linux kprobe events (current recording session, default channel).

    The recording event rule below matches the entry of usb_disconnect() Linux kernel function calls. The records of such events are named usbd (see the “Event record name” section above).

    See the --probe option.

        $ lttng enable-event --kernel --probe=usb_disconnect usbd

Example 7. Create a recording event rule which matches Linux kernel tracepoint events which satisfy an event payload and context filter (specific recording session, default channel).

    See the --session and --filter options.

        $ lttng enable-event --kernel --session=my-session 'sched_*' \
                --filter='$ctx.preemptible && comm != "systemd*"'

Example 8. Enable two Linux kernel tracepoint recording event rules (current recording session, specific channel).

    See the --channel option.

        $ lttng enable-event --kernel --channel=tva ja,wendy

RESOURCES

    • LTTng project website <https://lttng.org>

    • LTTng documentation <https://lttng.org/docs>

    • LTTng bug tracker <https://bugs.lttng.org>

    • Git repositories <https://git.lttng.org>

    • GitHub organization <https://github.com/lttng>

    • Continuous integration <https://ci.lttng.org/>

    • Mailing list <https://lists.lttng.org/> for support and development: lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org

    • IRC channel <irc://irc.oftc.net/lttng>: #lttng on irc.oftc.net

    • Mastodon <https://mastodon.social/@lttng>

COPYRIGHT

This program is part of the LTTng-tools project.

LTTng-tools is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html>. See the LICENSE <https://github.com/lttng/lttng-tools/blob/master/LICENSE> file for details.

THANKS

Special thanks to Michel Dagenais and the DORSAL laboratory <http://www.dorsal.polymtl.ca/> at École Polytechnique de Montréal for the LTTng journey.

Also thanks to the Ericsson teams working on tracing which helped us greatly with detailed bug reports and unusual test cases.

SEE ALSO

lttng(1), lttng-disable-event(1), lttng-enable-channel(1), lttng-list(1), lttng-start(1), lttng-track(1), lttng-concepts(7)