Useful resources on DTrace

As of today, I'm starting this simple index of my articles on DTrace, and I will also start adding here links to other resources on DTrace I've found extremely useful while experimenting with DTrace.


Articles you can find on my blog:

November 24, 2004: One more useful DTrace command line
December 6, 2004: The Official DTrace Guide
December 10, 2004: DTrace: predicates
December 14, 2004: DTrace options: flowindent
January 5, 2005: More on how DTrace works
January 7, 2005: DTrace: $target macro variable
January 12, 2005: DTrace: aggregations
January 25, 2005: DTrace open sourced
February 26, 2005: DTrace: pid provider
Marc 1, 2005: Tips and tricks from DTrace authors
May 18, 2005: DTrace: command line parameters in scripting
December 6, 2005: DTrace: observing PHP
December 12, 2005: DTrace: observing PHP, part 2
December 21, 2005: DTrace: playing with mod_auth_pam and Apache2


Other useful resources:

Bryan Cantrill's blog - Bryan is one of DTrace authors, and his blog is one of the most useful DTrace resources you'll ever find

Hidden in Plain Sight - an excellent article by Bryan Cantrill which gives a thorough explanation of modern software observability problems on production systems, Bryan also demonstrates the irrefutable advantages of using DTrace for performance-related problem investigation in such environments

DTrace Community @ OpenSolaris.Org, a very good source of various useful information on DTrace

DTrace Toolkit - a collection of very useful DTrace scripts for various occasions