static, benchmarking, tuning:

sar, perf-tools, bcc/BPF:

bpftrace, BPF book:

Images license: creative commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0.

This page links to various Linux performance material I've created, including the tools maps on the right. These use a large font size to suit slide decks. You can also print them out for your office wall. They show: Linux observability tools, Linux static performance analysis tools, Linux benchmarking tools, Linux tuning tools, and Linux sar. Check the year on the image (bottom right) to see how recent it is.

There is also a hi-res diagram combining observability, static performance tuning, and perf-tools/bcc: png, svg (see discussion), but it is not as complete as the other diagrams. For even more diagrams, see my slide decks below.

Tools

• perf: perf one-liners, examples, visualizations.
• eBPF tools: BPF/bcc tracing tools and examples.
• perf-tools: Ftrace perf tools (github).
• bcc: BPF/bcc perf tools (github).
• bpftrace: BPF/bpftrace perf tools (github).
• Flame Graphs: using perf and other profilers.

Documentation

• Linux Performance Analysis in 60,000 Milliseconds shows the first ten commands to use in an investigation (video, PDF). Written by myself and the performance engineering team at Netflix (2015).