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Getting started

• What is Perfetto?

• What is Tracing?

• How do I start using Perfetto?

• Tutorials

  • Full-Stack Perfetto

    • System Tracing
    • In-App Tracing
    • Memory Profiling
    • CPU Profiling

  • Adding Tracepoints

    • Android atrace
    • Linux ftrace

  • Non-Perfetto Trace Analysis

    • Supported trace formats
    • Converting to Perfetto

• Cookbooks

  • Analysing Android Traces

• Case Studies

  • Android Memory Usage
  • Scheduling blockages

Learning more

• Concepts

  • Trace configuration
  • Buffers and dataflow
  • Service model
  • Clock synchronization

• Trace Recording

  • Tracing in Background
  • More Android tracing
  • Chrome Tracing

• Trace Instrumentation

  • Tracing SDK
  • Track Event

• Trace Analysis

  • Getting Started
  • PerfettoSQL
    • Getting Started
    • Standard Library
    • Syntax
    • Style Guide
    • Backwards Compatibility
  • Trace Processor
    • Trace Processor (C++)
    • Trace Processor (Python)
  • Trace Summarization
  • Converting from Perfetto

• Trace Visualization

  • Perfetto UI

  • Opening large traces

  • Deep linking

  • Debug tracks

  • Extending the UI

    • Overview
    • Commands and Macros
    • Extension Servers

• Contributing

  • Getting started

  • Common tasks

  • Become a committer

  • UI

    • Getting started
    • Plugins

• FAQ

Diving deep

• Data sources

  • Memory Data sources

    • Native Heap profiler
    • Java heap dumps
    • Counters and events

  • Ftrace Data Sources

    • Scheduling events
    • System calls
    • Frequency scaling

  • Android Data Sources

    • Atrace
    • Logcat
    • Frame Timeline
    • Battery counters and rails
    • Other data sources

• Trace Format Reference

  • Trace Packet Proto
  • Advanced Programmatic Generation

• Advanced Trace Recording

  • Trace Config Proto

  • Concurrent tracing sessions

  • Detached mode

  • Android

    • Boot Tracing
    • OutOfMemoryError
    • Android Version Notes

  • Linux

    • Kernel track events
    • Tracing across reboots

  • Command Line Reference

    • perfetto_cmd
    • traced
    • traced_probes
    • heap_profile cmdline
    • tracebox

• Advanced Trace Analysis

  • PerfettoSQL

    • Prelude tables
    • Built-ins
    • Stats Table Reference

  • Single Trace Analysis

    • Legacy (v1) Metrics

  • Multi Trace Analysis

    • Batch Trace Processor
    • Bigtrace
    • Bigtrace on Kubernetes

• Advanced Perfetto SDK

  • Interceptors

• Advanced Trace Visualization

  • Commands Automation Reference
  • Extension Server Protocol

• Contributor Reference

  • Building
  • Testing
  • Developer tools

• Team documentation

  • SDK release process

  • Python release process

  • UI release process

  • Chrome branches

  • SQLite upgrade guide

  • Design documents

    • API and ABI surface
    • Life of a tracing session
    • ProtoZero
    • Security model
    • Statsd Checkpoint Atoms
    • Batch Trace Processor
    • Trace Processor Architecture
    • Heapprofd design
    • Heapprofd wire protocol
    • Heapprofd sampling
    • Perfetto CI
    • LockFreeTaskRunner