How does Suns Dynamic Tracing technology compare with competitive offerings?
Unlike competitive offerings, DTrace is the only dynamic tracing tool available that eliminates the need for collecting and processing event data. With DTrace, a system administrator can query the system experiencing the problem— in real time, while in production—and get accurate and precise information regarding the source of the problem. No log files are generated, and there is no data to analyze later. The answer to the first query guides the user to the next query and so on until the root cause of the problem is identified. Getting to the root cause using DTrace reduces the time it takes to identify problems by orders of magnitude, literally from days to hours.
