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LTTNG-STOP(1) LTTng Manual LTTNG-STOP(1)
lttng-stop - Stop one or more LTTng recording sessions
lttng [GENERAL OPTIONS] stop [--no-wait]
[--all | --glob=PATTERN | SESSION]
The lttng stop command stops one or more recording sessions, that
is, it deactivates the LTTng tracers for:
With the SESSION argument
The recording session named SESSION.
With the --glob=PATTERN option
The recording sessions of which the globbing pattern PATTERN
matches the name.
With the --all option
All the recording sessions of the connected session daemon for
your Unix user, or for all users if your Unix user is root, as
listed in the output of lttng list (see lttng-list(1)).
See the “Session daemon connection” section of lttng(1) to
learn how a user application connects to a session daemon.
Otherwise
The current recording session.
See lttng-concepts(7) to learn more about the current
recording session.
See lttng-concepts(7) to learn more about recording sessions.
The selected recording session(s) must be active (started; see
lttng-start(1)). A recording session is inactive on creation (see
lttng-create(1)).
A stop-session trigger action can also stop a recording session
(see lttng-add-trigger(1)).
Start one or more inactive recording sessions with the
lttng-start(1) command.
By default, the stop command ensures that the trace data of the
selected recording session(s) is valid before it exits. Make the
command exit immediately with the --no-wait option. In this case,
however, the traces(s) might not be valid when the command exits,
and there’s no way to know when it/they becomes valid.
See the “EXAMPLES” section below for usage examples.
See lttng(1) for GENERAL OPTIONS.
-a, --all
Stop all the recording sessions of your Unix user, or of all
users if your Unix user is root, as listed in the output of
lttng-list(1).
-g PATTERN, --glob=PATTERN
Stop the recording sessions of which the globbing pattern
PATTERN matches the name.
In PATTERN, the * character means “match anything”. To match a
literal * character, use \*.
-n, --no-wait
Do NOT ensure that the trace data of the selected recording
session(s) is valid before exiting.
Program information
-h, --help
Show help.
This option attempts to launch /usr/bin/man to view this
manual page. Override the manual pager path with the
LTTNG_MAN_BIN_PATH environment variable.
--list-options
List available command options and quit.
0
Success
1
Command error
2
Undefined command
3
Fatal error
4
Command warning (something went wrong during the command)
LTTNG_ABORT_ON_ERROR
Set to 1 to abort the process after the first error is
encountered.
LTTNG_HOME
Path to the LTTng home directory.
Defaults to $HOME.
Useful when the Unix user running the commands has a
non-writable home directory.
LTTNG_LIST_LEGACY
Set to 1 to use the legacy output format (LTTng 2.14 and
earlier) for the lttng-list(1) command instead of the modern
output format.
Note that the legacy output doesn’t show anything related to
features introduced after LTTng 2.14.
LTTNG_MAN_BIN_PATH
Absolute path to the manual pager to use to read the LTTng
command-line help (with lttng-help(1) or with the --help
option) instead of /usr/bin/man.
LTTNG_NO_UTF_8
Set to 1 to NOT emit multi-byte UTF-8 sequences, even if the
locale claims to support it.
LTTNG_SESSION_CONFIG_XSD_PATH
Path to the directory containing the session.xsd recording
session configuration XML schema.
LTTNG_SESSIOND_PATH
Absolute path to the LTTng session daemon binary (see
lttng-sessiond(8)) to spawn from the lttng-create(1) command.
The --sessiond-path general option overrides this environment
variable.
LTTNG_TERM_COLOR
Controls when to emit terminal SGR codes in the output.
The NO_COLOR environment variable overrides this.
One of:
auto (default)
Only emit SGR codes when the standard output is connected
to a color-capable terminal.
always
Always emit SGR codes.
never
Never emit SGR codes.
NO_COLOR
If set and not empty, then it’s equivalent to setting
LTTNG_TERM_COLOR to never.
See NO_COLOR <https://no-color.org/> to learn more.
$LTTNG_HOME/.lttngrc
Unix user’s LTTng runtime configuration.
This is where LTTng stores the name of the Unix user’s current
recording session between executions of lttng(1).
lttng-create(1) and lttng-set-session(1) set the current
recording session.
$LTTNG_HOME/lttng-traces
Default output directory of LTTng traces in local and snapshot
modes.
Override this path with the --output option of the
lttng-create(1) command.
$LTTNG_HOME/.lttng
Unix user’s LTTng runtime and configuration directory.
$LTTNG_HOME/.lttng/sessions
Default directory containing the Unix user’s saved recording
session configurations (see lttng-save(1) and lttng-load(1)).
/usr/local/etc/lttng/sessions
Directory containing the system-wide saved recording session
configurations (see lttng-save(1) and lttng-load(1)).
Note
$LTTNG_HOME defaults to the value of the HOME environment
variable.
Example 1. Stop the current recording session.
$ lttng stop
Example 2. Stop a specific recording session.
$ lttng stop my-session
Example 3. Stop the current recording session without waiting for
completion.
See the --no-wait option.
$ lttng stop --no-wait
Example 4. Stop all the recording sessions.
See the --all option.
$ lttng stop --all
Example 5. Stop all the recording sessions of which the name
starts with bar.
See the --glob option.
$ lttng stop --glob='bar*'
• LTTng project website <https://lttng.org>
• LTTng documentation <https://lttng.org/docs>
• LTTng bug tracker <https://bugs.lttng.org>
• Git repositories <https://git.lttng.org>
• GitHub organization <https://github.com/lttng>
• Continuous integration <https://ci.lttng.org/>
• Mailing list <https://lists.lttng.org/> for support and
development: lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org
• IRC channel <irc://irc.oftc.net/lttng>: #lttng on irc.oftc.net
• Mastodon <https://mastodon.social/@lttng>
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(1), lttng-add-trigger(1), lttng-create(1),
lttng-enable-event(1), lttng-rotate(1), lttng-start(1),
lttng-concepts(7)
This page is part of the LTTng-Tools (LTTng tools) project.
Information about the project can be found at ⟨http://lttng.org/⟩.
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LTTng 2.15.1 1 April 2025 LTTNG-STOP(1)
Pages that refer to this page: lttng(1), lttng-add-trigger(1), lttng-create(1), lttng-destroy(1), lttng-disable-event(1), lttng-enable-event(1), lttng-snapshot(1), lttng-start(1), lttng-concepts(7)
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