LTTng
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Installation
apk add lttng-tools
Kernel tracing
The kernel tracing part of LTTng requires out of tree modules to be built against the running kernel. These modules depend on the tracepoint facility which is disabled in the current Alpine Linux grsec kernel. However, the alternate vanilla kernel has all the required options built-in.
apk add linux-vanilla linux-vanilla-dev
Reboot with the vanilla kernel, you'll have to either change the default kernel flavour in /etc/update-extlinux.conf or uninstall the grsec kernel. Then build the LTTng modules from source.
wget REDACTED tar xvf lttng-modules-latest-2.8.tar.bz2 cd lttng-modules-* make sudo make install sudo depmod
If you have an already running lttng-sessiond at this point, it will need to be restarted to enable kernel tracing.