SystemTap

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SystemTap
Developed by	Various
Initial release	2006
Written in	C++, custom scripting
OS	Linux
Genre	Tracing
License	GNU General Public License
Website	http://sourceware.org/systemtap/

SystemTap is an open source project with contributors from Red Hat, IBM, Intel, Hitachi, Oracle and other community members to provides a simple command line interface and scripting language for gathering of information about the running Linux kernel so that it can be further analyzed. Data may be extracted, filtered, and summarized quickly and safely, to enable diagnoses of complex performance or functional problems.