BABELTRACE(1)

NAME
babeltrace — Babeltrace Trace Viewer and Converter

SYNOPSIS

babeltrace [OPTIONS] FILE...

DESCRIPTION

Babeltrace is a trace viewer and converter reading and writing the Common Trace Format (CTF). Its main use is to pretty-print CTF traces into a human-readable text output ordered by time.

This program follow the usual GNU command line syntax with long options starting with two dashes. Below is a summary of the available options.

FILE
    Input trace FILE(s) or directory(ies)

-w, --output OUTPUT
    Output trace path (default: stdout)

-i, --input-format FORMAT
    Input trace format (default: ctf). CTF is currently the only supported input format.

-o, --output-format FORMAT
    Output trace format (default: text)

-h, --help
    This help message

-l, --list
    List available formats

-v, --verbose
    Verbose mode (or set BABELTRACE_VERBOSE environment variable)

-d, --debug
    Debug mode (or set BABELTRACE_DEBUG environment variable)

--no-delta
    Do not print time delta between consecutive events

-n, --names name1<,name2,...>
    Print field names: (payload OR args OR arg), none, all, scope, header, (context OR ctx), (default: payload,context).

-f, --fields name1<,name2,...>
    Print additional fields: all, trace, trace:hostname, trace:domain, trace:procname, trace:vpid, loglevel.

--clock-cycles
    Disregard internal clock offset (use raw value)

--clock-offset seconds
    Clock offset in seconds

--clock-seconds
    Print the timestamps as [sec.ns] (default is: [hh:mm:ss.ns])

--clock-date
    Print clock date

--clock-gmt
    Print clock in GMT time zone (default: local time zone)

--stream-intersection
    Only print events when all streams are active

--debug-info-dir
    Directory in which to look for debugging information files (default: /usr/lib/debug/)

--debug-info-target-prefix
    Directory to use as a prefix for executable lookup

--debug-info-full-path
    Show full debug info source and binary paths (if available)

Formats available: ctf, dummy, text.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

Note that all command line options will override environmenal variables.

BABELTRACE_VERBOSE
    Activate verbose Babeltrace output.

BABELTRACE_DEBUG
    Activate debug Babeltrace output.

SEE ALSO

babeltrace-log(1), lttng(1), lttng-ust(3), lttng-sessiond(8)

BUGS

The lttng-live plugin does not honor the the "--output" command line option. If you encounter any issues or usability problem, please report it on our mailing list <lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org> to help improve this project.

CREDITS
Babeltrace and the babeltrace library are distributed under the MIT license. See the files LICENSE and mit-license.txt for details.

A Web site is available at http://www.efficios.com/babeltrace for more information on Babeltrace and the Common Trace Format. See http://lttng.org for more information on the LTTng project.

Mailing list for support and development: <lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org>.

You can find us on IRC server irc.oftc.net (OFTC) in #lttng.

THANKS
Thanks to the Linux Foundation and Ericsson for funding part of this work. Thanks to the Multicore Association Tool Infrastructure Working Group for their active role in the creation of the Common Trace Format.

AUTHORS

Babeltrace was originally written by Mathieu Desnoyers, with additional contributions from various other people. It is currently maintained by Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>.