lttng-relayd(8) — Linux manual page

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LTTNG-RELAYD(8)               LTTng Manual               LTTNG-RELAYD(8)

NAME         top

       lttng-relayd - LTTng 2 relay daemon

SYNOPSIS         top

       lttng-relayd [--background | --daemonize]
                    [--control-port=URL] [--data-port=URL] [--live-port=URL]
                    [--output=PATH] [-v | -vv | -vvv]

DESCRIPTION         top

       The Linux Trace Toolkit: next generation <https://lttng.org/> is
       an open source software package used for correlated tracing of
       the Linux kernel, user applications, and user libraries.

       LTTng consists of Linux kernel modules (for Linux kernel tracing)
       and dynamically loaded libraries (for user application and
       library tracing).

       The LTTng relay daemon is responsible for receiving trace data
       from possibly remote LTTng session/consumer daemons and for
       writing it to the local file system. The relay daemon also
       accepts LTTng live connections from compatible viewers; this is
       the official approach to viewing LTTng events as they are
       emitted.

       The relay daemon listens by default on all network interfaces to
       gather trace data, but only on localhost for LTTng live
       connections.

       The relay daemon does not require any particular permissions, as
       long as it can write to the output directory and listen on the
       configured ports. If a user is within a secured network and/or
       has proper firewall settings, lttng-relayd can listen to LTTng
       live connections from all network interfaces by specifying
       --live-port=tcp://localhost:5344.

       Once a trace has been streamed completely, the trace can be
       processed by any tool that can process an LTTng trace located on
       the local file system.

   Output directory
       By default, the relay daemon writes the traces to:

           $LTTNG_HOME/lttng-traces/HOSTNAME/SESSION/DOMAIN

       with:

       HOSTNAME
           Remote hostname.

       SESSION
           Full session name.

       DOMAIN
           Tracing domain.

       You can override the default output directory prefix
       ($LTTNG_HOME/lttng-traces) with the --output option. The other
       parts depend on the remote configuration.

   URL format
       The --control-port, --data-port, and --live-port options specify
       URLs.

       The format of those URLs is:

           tcp://(HOST | IPADDR):PORT

       with:

       (HOST | IPADDR)
           Binding hostname or IP address (IPv6 address must be enclosed
           in brackets ([ and ]); see RFC 2732
           <https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2732.txt>).

       PORT
           TCP port.

OPTIONS         top

   Daemon
       -b, --background
           Start as Unix daemon, but keep file descriptors (console)
           open. Use the --daemonize option instead to close the file
           descriptors.

       -d, --daemonize
           Start as Unix daemon, and close file descriptors (console).
           Use the --background option instead to keep the file
           descriptors open.

       -g GROUP, --group=GROUP
           Use GROUP as Unix tracing group (default: tracing).

       -o PATH, --output=PATH
           Set base directory of written trace data to PATH.

           See the Output directory section above for more information.

       -v, --verbose
           Increase verbosity.

           Three levels of verbosity are available, which are triggered
           by appending additional v letters to the option (that is, -vv
           and -vvv).

   Ports
       See the URL format section above for more information about the
       syntax of the following options' URL argument.

       -C URL, --control-port=URL
           Listen to control data on URL URL (default:
           tcp://0.0.0.0:5342).

       -D URL, --data-port=URL
           Listen to trace data on URL URL (default:
           tcp://0.0.0.0:5343).

       -L URL, --live-port=URL
           Listen to LTTng live connections on URL URL (default:
           tcp://localhost:5344).

   Program information
       -h, --help
           Show help.

       -V, --version
           Show version.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES         top

       LTTNG_ABORT_ON_ERROR
           Set to 1 to abort the process after the first error is
           encountered.

       LTTNG_NETWORK_SOCKET_TIMEOUT
           Socket connection, receive and send timeout (milliseconds). A
           value of 0 or -1 uses the timeout of the operating system
           (default).

       LTTNG_RELAYD_HEALTH
           Path to relay daemon health’s socket.

       LTTNG_RELAYD_TCP_KEEP_ALIVE
           Set to 1 to enable TCP keep-alive.

           The TCP keep-alive mechanism allows the detection of dead
           peers (lttng-sessiond(8)) in cases of unclean termination
           (for example, a hard reset) of a peer.

           Supported on Linux and Solaris only. The default behaviour of
           the TCP keep-alive mechanism is OS-specific.

           Search for tcp_keepalive in tcp(7) for more information.

       LTTNG_RELAYD_TCP_KEEP_ALIVE_ABORT_THRESHOLD
           The time threshold in seconds to abort a TCP connection after
           the keep-alive probing mechanism has failed.

           Set to 0 or -1 to use the value chosen by the operating
           system (default).

           Supported on Solaris 11 only.

           Search for tcp_keepalive_abort_threshold in tcp(7) for more
           information.

       LTTNG_RELAYD_TCP_KEEP_ALIVE_IDLE_TIME
           Number of seconds a connection needs to be idle before TCP
           begins sending out keep-alive probes.

           Set to 0 or -1 to use the value chosen by the operating
           system (default).

           Supported on Linux and Solaris 11 only.

           On Solaris 11, the accepted values are -1, 0, and 10 to
           864000.

           Search for tcp_keepalive_time and tcp_keepalive_interval in
           tcp(7) on Solaris 11 for more information.

       LTTNG_RELAYD_TCP_KEEP_ALIVE_MAX_PROBE_COUNT
           Maximum number of TCP keep-alive probes to send before giving
           up and killing the connection if no response is obtained from
           the other end.

           Set to 0 or -1 to use the value chosen by the operating
           system (default).

           Supported on Linux only.

           Search for tcp_keepalive_probes in tcp(7) for more
           information.

       LTTNG_RELAYD_TCP_KEEP_ALIVE_PROBE_INTERVAL
           Number of seconds between TCP keep-alive probes.

           Set to 0 or -1 to use the value chosen by the operating
           system (default).

           Supported on Linux only.

           Search for tcp_keepalive_intvl in tcp(7) for more
           information.

FILES         top

       $LTTNG_HOME/.lttng
           User LTTng runtime and configuration directory.

       $LTTNG_HOME/lttng-traces
           Default output directory of LTTng traces. This can be
           overridden with the --output option.

           Note

           $LTTNG_HOME defaults to $HOME when not explicitly set.

EXIT STATUS         top

       0
           Success

       1
           Error

       3
           Fatal error

LIMITATIONS         top

       As of this version, only the TCP protocol is supported for both
       control and data ports. In future versions, TCP will remain the
       sole available protocol for control data since those
       communications are low-volume and need absolute reliability;
       trace data could be carried over UDP.

       For an unprivileged user running lttng-relayd, the maximum number
       of file descriptors per process is usually 1024. This limits the
       number of connections and opened trace files. This limit can be
       configured with ulimit(3).

BUGS         top

       If you encounter any issue or usability problem, please report it
       on the LTTng bug tracker <https://bugs.lttng.org/projects/lttng-
       tools>.

RESOURCES         top

       •   LTTng project website <https://lttng.org>

       •   LTTng documentation <https://lttng.org/docs>

       •   Git repositories <http://git.lttng.org>

       •   GitHub organization <http://github.com/lttng>

       •   Continuous integration <http://ci.lttng.org/>

       •   Mailing list <http://lists.lttng.org> for support and
           development: lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org

       •   IRC channel <irc://irc.oftc.net/lttng>: #lttng on
           irc.oftc.net

COPYRIGHTS         top

       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.

THANKS         top

       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.

AUTHORS         top

       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>.

SEE ALSO         top

       lttng(1), lttng-sessiond(8), lttng-crash(1), lttng-ust(3),
       babeltrace(1)

COLOPHON         top

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