• Overview

• Tracing 101

• Quickstart

  • Record traces on Android
  • Record traces on Linux
  • Record Chrome traces
  • SQL analysis and metrics
  • Trace conversion
  • Heap profiling
  • Callstack sampling on Android

• FAQ

• Case studies

  • Android boot tracing
  • Debugging memory usage

• Data sources

  • Memory
    • Counters and events
    • Heap profiler
    • Java heap dumps
  • CPU
    • Scheduling events
    • System calls
    • Frequency scaling
  • Power
    • Battery counters and rails
  • Android system
    • Android game intervention list
    • Atrace instrumentation
    • Android log (logcat)
    • Android Janks

• App Instrumentation

  • Tracing SDK
  • Track events
  • Interceptors

• Trace analysis

  • Trace Processor (SQL)
  • Batch Trace Processor
  • Standard library
  • Built-in Functions
  • Trace-based metrics
  • Common queries
  • SQL tables
  • Stats table
  • Pivot tables

• Trace visualization

  • Perfetto UI
  • Visualising large traces
  • Deep linking to Perfetto UI
  • Perfetto UI release process

• Core concepts

  • Trace configuration
  • Buffers and dataflow
  • Service model
  • Clock synchronization
  • Detached mode

• Reference

  • Trace Config proto
  • Trace Packet proto
  • perfetto cmdline
  • heap_profile cmdline
  • Synthetic TrackEvent
  • Android Version Notes

• Contributing

  • Getting started
  • Build instructions
  • Running tests
  • UI plugins
  • UI development hints
  • Embedding Perfetto
  • Releasing the SDK
  • Chrome branches
  • Common tasks
  • Press

• Design documents

  • API and ABI surface
  • Batch Trace Processor
  • Heapprofd design
  • Heapprofd wire protocol
  • Heapprofd sampling
  • Life of a tracing session
  • Perfetto CI
  • ProtoZero
  • Security model
  • Statsd Checkpoint Atoms