bpftrace
E341123
bpftrace is a high-level tracing language and tool for Linux that leverages eBPF to enable powerful, dynamic instrumentation and performance analysis of running systems.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| bpftrace canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3245481 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: bpftrace Context triple: [DTrace, influenced, bpftrace]
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A.
DTrace
DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework originally developed for Solaris that enables real-time, low-overhead observability and debugging of operating systems and applications.
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B.
gperftools
gperftools is a Google-developed collection of performance analysis tools for C++ programs, including a fast memory allocator and CPU/heap profilers.
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C.
perf (Linux profiler)
perf (Linux profiler) is a powerful Linux profiling and performance analysis tool that leverages kernel performance counters to measure and diagnose system and application behavior.
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D.
TRACE
TRACE is a U.S. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) system that provides real-time public reporting and transparency for over-the-counter corporate bond and other fixed-income securities transactions.
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E.
aa-logprof
aa-logprof is a userspace AppArmor utility that analyzes system logs to help generate and refine security profiles for applications.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: bpftrace Target entity description: bpftrace is a high-level tracing language and tool for Linux that leverages eBPF to enable powerful, dynamic instrumentation and performance analysis of running systems.
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A.
DTrace
DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework originally developed for Solaris that enables real-time, low-overhead observability and debugging of operating systems and applications.
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B.
gperftools
gperftools is a Google-developed collection of performance analysis tools for C++ programs, including a fast memory allocator and CPU/heap profilers.
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C.
perf (Linux profiler)
perf (Linux profiler) is a powerful Linux profiling and performance analysis tool that leverages kernel performance counters to measure and diagnose system and application behavior.
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D.
TRACE
TRACE is a U.S. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) system that provides real-time public reporting and transparency for over-the-counter corporate bond and other fixed-income securities transactions.
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E.
aa-logprof
aa-logprof is a userspace AppArmor utility that analyzes system logs to help generate and refine security profiles for applications.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
eBPF front-end
ⓘ
free and open-source software ⓘ high-level tracing language ⓘ tracing tool ⓘ |
| category |
Linux observability tool
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Linux performance analysis tool ⓘ |
| feature |
AWK-like language syntax
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DTrace-inspired design ⓘ USDT probe support ⓘ aggregation primitives ⓘ attach to kernel functions ⓘ attach to running processes ⓘ attach to tracepoints ⓘ attach to user-level functions ⓘ built-in functions ⓘ built-in variables ⓘ command-line interface ⓘ histogram operators ⓘ map support ⓘ one-liner scripts ⓘ printf-style output ⓘ script files ⓘ stack trace collection ⓘ type system with structs ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | DTrace ⓘ |
| license | Apache License 2.0 ⓘ |
| operatingSystem | Linux ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
debugging
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dynamic tracing ⓘ performance analysis ⓘ system observability ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage |
C++
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LLVM IR ⓘ
linked to:
LLVM
|
| repositoryPlatform | GitHub ⓘ |
| requires | Linux kernel with eBPF support ⓘ |
| supports |
JIT-compiled eBPF programs
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ahead-of-time compiled eBPF programs ⓘ |
| supportsKernelFeature |
USDT probes
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cgroup attachments ⓘ eBPF ⓘ hardware events ⓘ histograms ⓘ kfunc probes ⓘ kprobes ⓘ kretfunc probes ⓘ maps ⓘ network tracing ⓘ perf events ⓘ raw tracepoints ⓘ software events ⓘ stack traces ⓘ tracepoints ⓘ uprobes ⓘ |
| targetEnvironment |
Linux kernel
ⓘ
user-space processes ⓘ |
| typicalUser |
SREs
ⓘ
kernel developers ⓘ performance engineers ⓘ system administrators ⓘ |
| usesCompilerInfrastructure |
Clang
ⓘ
LLVM ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: bpftrace Description of subject: bpftrace is a high-level tracing language and tool for Linux that leverages eBPF to enable powerful, dynamic instrumentation and performance analysis of running systems.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.