For Users

• Dynamically enable and manage thousands of probes.
• Dynamically associate predicates and actions with probes.
• Dynamically manage trace buffers and probe overhead.
• Examine trace data from a live system or from a system crash dump.

For Solaris Developers

• Implement new trace data providers that plug into DTrace.
• Implement new trace data providers that plug into DTrace.
• Implement trace data consumers that provide data display.
• Implement tools that configure DTrace probes.

Getting Started

• See Chapter 1 of the DTrace Guide
• Bryan Cantrill's original Newsgroup Posting
• DTrace Topics Intro on SolarisInternals.com
• Many links are on the DTrace BigAdmin System Administration Portal
• How to get started Guide on Brendan Gregg's DTrace Tools page
• James Dickens What is DTrace
• DTrace FAQ on genunix.org

Discussions

• Join the discussion on the OpenSolaris DTrace Jive forum or Mailman interface. To subscribe, send an empty email to dtrace-discuss dash subscribe at opensolaris dot org
• For reference only, see the DTrace forum on forums.sun.com
• Find Q&As in the XPerts Session

Scripts

• Download the DTraceToolkit
• Brendan Gregg's DTrace Tools
• Richard McDougall's DTrace Scripts

Documentation

• DTrace Guide from wikis.sun.com
• DTrace Topics from SolarisInternals.com
• The Solaris Performance and Tools book

Technical Papers

• USENIX DTrace Paper

Examples

• A few worked DTrace Examples
• Jay Danielsen's DTrace Case Study
• Dragan Cvetkovic's Example of USDT in SAX [PDF]

Related Projects

• DTrace Network Providers
• DTrace Providers for Various Shells
• OpenSolaris Project: Mozilla DTrace: DTrace Mozilla and JavaScript providers
• OpenSolaris Project: Chime Visualization Tool for DTrace