• Overview

• Quickstart

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

• Case studies

  • Android boot tracing
  • Debugging memory usage

• Data sources

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

• App Instrumentation

  • Tracing SDK
  • Track events
  • Interceptors

• Trace analysis

  • Trace Processor (SQL)
  • Trace-based metrics
  • SQL tables
  • Stats table

• 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

• Contributing

  • Getting started
  • Build instructions
  • Running tests
  • Common tasks
  • Embedding Perfetto
  • Releasing the SDK
  • Chrome branches

• Design documents

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