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LTTNG-TRACK(1)                  LTTng Manual                  LTTNG-TRACK(1)

NAME         top

       lttng-track - Add one or more entries to an LTTng resource tracker

SYNOPSIS         top

       lttng [GENERAL OPTIONS] track (--kernel | --userspace)
             [--session=SESSION] (--pid=PID[,PID]... | --all --pid)

DESCRIPTION         top

       The lttng track commands adds one or more entries to a resource
       tracker.
       A resource tracker is a whitelist of resources. Tracked resources are
       allowed to emit events, provided those events are targeted by enabled
       event rules (see lttng-enable-event(1)).
       Tracker entries can be removed from the whitelist with
       lttng-untrack(1).
       As of this version, the only available tracker is the PID tracker.
       The process ID (PID) tracker follows one or more process IDs; only
       the processes with a tracked PID are allowed to emit events. By
       default, all possible PIDs on the system are tracked: any process may
       emit enabled events (equivalent of lttng track --pid --all for all
       domains).
       With the PID tracker, it is possible, for example, to record all
       system calls called by a given process:
           lttng enable-event --kernel --all --syscall
           lttng track --kernel --pid=2345
           lttng start
       If all the PIDs are tracked (i.e. lttng track --pid --all, which is
       the default state of all domains when creating a tracing session),
       then using the track command with one or more specific PIDs has the
       effect of first removing all the PIDs from the whitelist, then adding
       the specified PIDs.
   Example
       Assume the maximum system PID is 7 for this example.
       Initial whitelist:
           [0] [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
       Command:
           lttng track --userspace --pid=3,6,7
       Whitelist:
           [ ] [ ] [ ] [3] [ ] [ ] [6] [7]
       Command:
           lttng untrack --userspace --pid=7
       Whitelist:
           [ ] [ ] [ ] [3] [ ] [ ] [6] [ ]
       Command:
           lttng track --userspace --pid=1,5
       Whitelist:
           [ ] [1] [ ] [3] [ ] [5] [6] [ ]
       It should be noted that the PID tracker tracks the numeric process
       IDs. Should a process with a given ID exit and another process be
       given this ID, then the latter would also be allowed to emit events.
       See the lttng-untrack(1) for more details about removing entries.

OPTIONS         top

       General options are described in lttng(1).
   Domain
       One of:
       -k, --kernel
           Track resources in the Linux kernel domain.
       -u, --userspace
           Track resources in the user space domain.
   Target
       -s SESSION, --session=SESSION
           Track resources in the tracing session named SESSION instead of
           the current tracing session.
   Tracking
       -a, --all
           Used in conjunction with an empty --pid option: track all process
           IDs (add all entries to the whitelist).
       -p [PID[,PID]...], --pid[=PID[,PID]...]
           Track process IDs PID (add them to the current whitelist).
           The PID argument must be omitted when also using the --all
           option.
   Program information
       -h, --help
           Show command help.
           This option, like lttng-help(1), attempts to launch /usr/bin/man
           to view the command’s man page. The path to the man pager can be
           overridden by the LTTNG_MAN_BIN_PATH environment variable.
       --list-options
           List available command options.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES         top

       LTTNG_ABORT_ON_ERROR
           Set to 1 to abort the process after the first error is
           encountered.
       LTTNG_HOME
           Overrides the $HOME environment variable. Useful when the user
           running the commands has a non-writable home directory.
       LTTNG_MAN_BIN_PATH
           Absolute path to the man pager to use for viewing help
           information about LTTng commands (using lttng-help(1) or lttng
           COMMAND --help).
       LTTNG_SESSION_CONFIG_XSD_PATH
           Path in which the session.xsd session configuration XML schema
           may be found.
       LTTNG_SESSIOND_PATH
           Full session daemon binary path.
           The --sessiond-path option has precedence over this environment
           variable.
       Note that the lttng-create(1) command can spawn an LTTng session
       daemon automatically if none is running. See lttng-sessiond(8) for
       the environment variables influencing the execution of the session
       daemon.

FILES         top

       $LTTNG_HOME/.lttngrc
           User LTTng runtime configuration.
           This is where the per-user current tracing session is stored
           between executions of lttng(1). The current tracing session can
           be set with lttng-set-session(1). See lttng-create(1) for more
           information about tracing sessions.
       $LTTNG_HOME/lttng-traces
           Default output directory of LTTng traces. This can be overridden
           with the --output option of the lttng-create(1) command.
       $LTTNG_HOME/.lttng
           User LTTng runtime and configuration directory.
       $LTTNG_HOME/.lttng/sessions
           Default location of saved user tracing sessions (see
           lttng-save(1) and lttng-load(1)).
       /usr/local/etc/lttng/sessions
           System-wide location of saved tracing sessions (see lttng-save(1)
           and lttng-load(1)).
           Note
           $LTTNG_HOME defaults to $HOME when not explicitly set.

EXIT STATUS         top

       0
           Success
       1
           Command error
       2
           Undefined command
       3
           Fatal error
       4
           Command warning (something went wrong during the command)

BUGS         top

       If you encounter any issue or usability problem, please report it on
       the LTTng bug tracker <https://bugs.lttng.org/projects/lttng-tools>.

RESOURCES         top

       ·   LTTng project website <http://lttng.org>
       ·   LTTng documentation <http://lttng.org/docs>
       ·   Git repositories <http://git.lttng.org>
       ·   GitHub organization <http://github.com/lttng>
       ·   Continuous integration <http://ci.lttng.org/>
       ·   Mailing list <http://lists.lttng.org> for support and
           development: lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org
       ·   IRC channel <irc://irc.oftc.net/lttng>: #lttng on irc.oftc.net

COPYRIGHTS         top

       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         top

       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.

AUTHORS         top

       LTTng-tools was originally written by Mathieu Desnoyers, Julien
       Desfossez, and David Goulet. More people have since contributed to
       it.
       LTTng-tools is currently maintained by Jérémie Galarneau
       <mailto:jeremie.galarneau@efficios.com>.

SEE ALSO         top

       lttng-untrack(1), lttng(1)

COLOPHON         top

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