Monday, October 4, 2010

DTrace: Managing Applications in Modern Operating Systems


DTrace: Managing Applications in Modern Operating Systems

Abstract: Modern operating systems often have many commands at different layers in the software stack which are required in order to debug issues. DTrace changes this and provides a secure single interface to investigate nearly every layer in the software stack in a running production system, where developers can even create their own hooks for when they may need additional future insight.

Video interview on DTrace:
http://blogs.sun.com/video/entry/dtrace_for_system_administrators_with

PDF presentation on DTrace:
http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/resource/OOW2010_DTrace.pdf

The DTrace book:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0132091518

Disk monitoring using DTrace:
http://www.princeton.edu/~unix/Solaris/troubleshoot/diskio.html
http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/dtrace_tutorial.html
http://wikis.sun.com/display/DTrace/io+Provider

Least Privilege with DTrace - No root required:
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/least_privilege.jsp

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