On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 1:51 PM, Brendan Gregg <[email protected]>
wrote:

> As discussed on the call, here's who I think are the three audiences for
> bcc/BPF tracing:
>
> A) Kernel hackers (~100): who would like the language to be easier, better
> errors, docs, etc.
> B) Sysadmins/operators/senior devs (~5k): who will use the existing bcc
> tools (and edit some).
> C) Everyone else (>50k): via dashboards/GUIs.
>
> I'm pretty happy with where the toolset is for audience B. There's a few
> more tools I'd like to add (TCP internals and buffering, disk I/O
> internals), but a lot can be done now.
>
> Audience A might be served by something like ply, or partially served by
> Sasha's multi-tools.
>

I missed a possibility for A: SystemTap with a BPF backend (there were
emails about this on lkml a while ago).

Suchakra replied with other tools as well (thanks).

Brendan
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