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LTTNG-ADD-CONTEXT(1) LTTng Manual LTTNG-ADD-CONTEXT(1)
lttng-add-context - Add context fields to an LTTng channel
Add context fields to a channel: lttng [GENERAL OPTIONS] add-context (--kernel | --userspace | --jul | --log4j) [--session=SESSION] [--channel=CHANNEL] --type=TYPE [--type=TYPE]... List the available context fields: lttng [GENERAL OPTIONS] add-context --list
The lttng add-context command adds one or more context fields to a channel. Channels are created with the lttng-enable-channel(1) command. When context fields are added to a channel, all the events emitted within this channel contain the dynamic values of those context fields. If the --session option is omitted, the current tracing session is used. If the --channel option is omitted, the context fields are added to all the selected tracing session’s channels. Many context fields can be added to a channel at once by repeating the --type option. perf counters are available as per-CPU (perf:cpu: prefix) as well as per-thread (perf:thread: prefix) counters. Currently, per-CPU counters can only be used in the Linux kernel tracing domain, while per-thread counters can only be used in the user space tracing domain. It is also possible to enable PMU counters by raw ID using the perf:cpu:raw:rN:NAME (Linux kernel tracing domain) or perf:thread:raw:rN:NAME (user space tracing domain), with: N A hexadecimal event descriptor which is the same format as used by perf-record(1): a concatenation of the event number and umask value provided by the processor’s manufacturer. The possible values for this field are processor-specific. NAME Custom name to easily recognize the counter. Application-specific context fields can be added to a channel using the following syntax: $app.PROVIDER:TYPE with: PROVIDER Provider name. TYPE Context type name. Note Make sure to single-quote the type when running the command from a shell, as $ is a special character for variable substitution in most shells. Use the --list option without other arguments to list the available context field names. See the LIMITATIONS section below for a list of limitations to consider.
General options are described in lttng(1). Domain One of: -j, --jul Add context to channel in the java.util.logging (JUL) domain. -k, --kernel Add context to channel in the Linux kernel domain. -l, --log4j Add context to channel in the Apache log4j domain. -u, --userspace Add context to channel in the user space domain. Target -c CHANNEL, --channel=CHANNEL Add context fields to a channel named CHANNEL instead of adding them to all the channels. -s SESSION, --session=SESSION Add context fields to a channel in the tracing session named SESSION instead of the current tracing session. Context --list List the available context fields. Use this option alone. -t TYPE, --type=TYPE Add context field named TYPE. This option can be repeated as many times as needed on the command-line. Program information -h, --help Show command help. This option, like lttng-help(1), attempts to launch /usr/bin/man to view the command’s man page. The path to the man pager can be overridden by the LTTNG_MAN_BIN_PATH environment variable. --list-options List available command options.
As of this version of LTTng, it is not possible to add context fields to a channel once its tracing session has been started (see lttng-start(1)) at least once.
LTTNG_ABORT_ON_ERROR Set to 1 to abort the process after the first error is encountered. LTTNG_HOME Overrides the $HOME environment variable. Useful when the user running the commands has a non-writable home directory. LTTNG_MAN_BIN_PATH Absolute path to the man pager to use for viewing help information about LTTng commands (using lttng-help(1) or lttng COMMAND --help). LTTNG_SESSION_CONFIG_XSD_PATH Path in which the session.xsd session configuration XML schema may be found. LTTNG_SESSIOND_PATH Full session daemon binary path. The --sessiond-path option has precedence over this environment variable. Note that the lttng-create(1) command can spawn an LTTng session daemon automatically if none is running. See lttng-sessiond(8) for the environment variables influencing the execution of the session daemon.
$LTTNG_HOME/.lttngrc User LTTng runtime configuration. This is where the per-user current tracing session is stored between executions of lttng(1). The current tracing session can be set with lttng-set-session(1). See lttng-create(1) for more information about tracing sessions. $LTTNG_HOME/lttng-traces Default output directory of LTTng traces. This can be overridden with the --output option of the lttng-create(1) command. $LTTNG_HOME/.lttng User LTTng runtime and configuration directory. $LTTNG_HOME/.lttng/sessions Default location of saved user tracing sessions (see lttng-save(1) and lttng-load(1)). /usr/local/etc/lttng/sessions System-wide location of saved tracing sessions (see lttng-save(1) and lttng-load(1)). Note $LTTNG_HOME defaults to $HOME when not explicitly set.
0 Success 1 Command error 2 Undefined command 3 Fatal error 4 Command warning (something went wrong during the command)
If you encounter any issue or usability problem, please report it on the LTTng bug tracker <https://bugs.lttng.org/projects/lttng- tools>.
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This program is part of the LTTng-tools project. LTTng-tools is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old- licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html>. See the LICENSE <https://github.com/lttng/lttng-tools/blob/master/LICENSE> file for details.
Special thanks to Michel Dagenais and the DORSAL laboratory <http://www.dorsal.polymtl.ca/> at École Polytechnique de Montréal for the LTTng journey. Also thanks to the Ericsson teams working on tracing which helped us greatly with detailed bug reports and unusual test cases.
LTTng-tools was originally written by Mathieu Desnoyers, Julien Desfossez, and David Goulet. More people have since contributed to it. LTTng-tools is currently maintained by Jérémie Galarneau <mailto:jeremie.galarneau@efficios.com>.
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