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I did write a tutorial; it's terse (on purpose) but a start: https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/blob/master/docs/tutorial_bcc...

I imagine we'll get more detailed tutorials over time, especially as the dust settles on the API/interface (it's still improving, plus people are working on alternate front-ends).

Lastly, I'm using bcc on a regular basis at Netflix, and usually find the tools that exist are sufficient (a couple of days ago I traced a resource leak using stackcount and trace). When there's something extra I need, I add a tool to bcc. So yes, we should make tooling easy, but I hope a lot of the time people find that a tool already exists for what they need.



Thanks for the link.

I've been using your tools on and off with our infrastructure. I work for part of Oracle, and we're using the Oracle UEK on our stuff, which tracks mainline a lot closer and gives good access to all these features. The product is still fairly young, so most of my focus has been elsewhere (crossing the Ts, dotting the Is), but I've been scribbling down thoughts of ways I can use eBFP to give me access to useful information across our fleets.




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