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bpftrace/bpftrace

High-level tracing language for Linux
Source code at GitHub https://bpftrace.org/
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bpftrace

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bpftrace is a general purpose tracing tool and language for Linux. It leverages eBPF to provide powerful, efficient tracing capabilities with minimal overhead. bpftrace uses LLVM as a compiler backend, and libbpf for interacting with the Linux BPF subsystem, including kernel dynamic tracing (kprobes, hardware and software perf events), user-level dynamic tracing (USDT, uprobes), tracepoints (regular, raw), and more. The bpftrace language is inspired by awk, C, and predecessor tracers such as DTrace and SystemTap.

Visit bpftrace.org for tutorials, documentation, and labs!

This respository also contains some [canonical tools]!(tools/README.md).

For migrating from older versions, see the [migration guide]!(docs/migration_guide.md).

Quick Start

Section titled “Quick Start”

Get started with bpftrace in just a few minutes! To build from source, see the [development guide]!(docs/developers.md#building). However, you can often install it using your distribution’s package manager.

[!IMPORTANT] When using a distribution package, be sure to verify bpftrace --version when referencing documentation.

Distributions Command
Ubuntu 22.04 Ubuntu 24.04 Ubuntu 25.04 Ubuntu 25.10 Debian 13 Debian 14 Debian Unstable 
sudo apt install bpftrace
Fedora 42 Fedora 43 Fedora Rawhide CentOS 9 CentOS 10 
sudo dnf install bpftrace
Alpine 3.21 Alpine 3.22 Alpine Edge 
sudo apk add bpftrace
Arch Linux 
sudo pacman -S bpftrace
Gentoo 
sudo emerge -av bpftrace
nixpkgs 
nix-shell -p bpftrace
openSUSE Tumbleweed 
sudo zypper install bpftrace
AppImage (nightly) 
declare -A suffixes=([x86_64]="X64" [amd64]="AMD64");
declare prefix="bpftrace/bpftrace/workflows/binary/master/bpftrace";
declare url="https://nightly.link/${prefix}-${suffixes[$(uname -m)]}.zip";
curl -L -o bpftrace.zip "${url}" && unzip bpftrace.zip

Contributing

Section titled “Contributing”

See our [contributing guide]!(CONTRIBUTING.md) for details on how to contribute, and our [governance]!(GOVERNANCE.md) document for details on how the project is run.

If you have tools built with bpftrace that you’d like to submit, please contribute to the user-tools repository.

Building

Section titled “Building”

For full build instructions (Nix or distro-native), see the [development guide]!(docs/developers.md#building).

Community & Support

Section titled “Community & Support”

bpftrace is built and maintained by a diverse community of contributors, users, and organizations who rely on it for production tracing and debugging.

Get help or get involved: