This tutorial introduces the BPF Compiler Collection (BCC) suite, explains how to install it, lists essential Linux commands, and provides step‑by‑step examples of each BCC tool for fast performance analysis, fault isolation, and network troubleshooting on Linux systems.
This article introduces bpftrace, an eBPF‑based dynamic tracing tool for Linux, explains its core concepts, technical architecture, installation methods, basic syntax, and demonstrates real‑world performance analysis, fault diagnosis, and security monitoring scenarios while comparing it with DTrace, SystemTap, and BCC.
This article provides a comprehensive guide to Linux's ftrace tool, explaining its purpose, various tracers, how to set up and use it via debugfs, detailed command examples, implementation details, practical use cases for performance tuning and debugging, and a comparison with other tracing utilities.
This article walks through constructing pure‑C eBPF programs using the native libbpf library, covering kernel‑libbpf version mapping, environment setup for RPM and DEB systems, detailed Makefile analysis, embedding BPF objects via hexdump, and extending the approach to USDT and Uprobe tracing without relying on libbpf‑bootstrap.
The article walks through libbpf’s step‑by‑step process for opening the vfsstat.bpf.o ELF object, validating options, parsing ELF headers, collecting sections, initializing maps and programs, and preparing the eBPF program for later kernel loading and attachment.
This article provides a comprehensive guide to Linux Perf, covering its architecture, counting and sampling modes, event classifications, the full suite of Perf tools, and how to generate and interpret CPU and Off‑CPU flame graphs for deep performance analysis.
This article introduces the fundamentals of BPF and its extended version eBPF, explains their kernel‑resident virtual machine architecture, demonstrates simple packet‑filtering examples, outlines the eBPF program lifecycle, describes key BPF system‑call commands, and surveys the various eBPF map types used for efficient data handling in Linux.
This talk explains how to diagnose MySQL performance issues by combining traditional MySQL slow‑query analysis with system‑level observation tools, introducing eBPF, bcc scripts, and practical examples to pinpoint bottlenecks across the database, OS, and hardware layers.
This tutorial introduces Sysdig, an open‑source Linux monitoring tool that combines strace, tcpdump, and lsof, shows how to install it, explore its built‑in chisels, and apply practical examples for performance troubleshooting, user activity, file I/O, and network traffic analysis.
