What is Solaris Dynamic Tracing (DTrace)?
DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework for Solaris 10 designed for real time application debugging and performance troubleshooting. DTrace provides a powerful infrastructure to permit administrators, developers, and service personnel to concisely answer arbitrary questions about the behavior of the operating system and user programs. It is a powerful tool that can be used by both entry-level and experienced system administrators to troubleshoot both system and application performance problems in hours or minutes that might have previously taken days. DTrace is safe to use on development, test, and production systems.
DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework for Solaris 10 designed for real time application debugging and performance troubleshooting. DTrace provides a powerful infrastructure to permit administrators, developers, and service personnel to concisely answer arbitrary questions about the behavior of the operating system and user programs. It is a power tool that can be used by both entry-level and experienced system administrators to troubleshoot both system and application performance problems in hours or minutes that might have previously taken days. DTrace is safe to use on development, test, and production systems.