BPFtrace is a [DTrace](http://dtrace.org)-style dynamic tracing tool for linux, based on the extended BPF capabilities available in recent Linux kernels. BPFtrace uses [LLVM](http://llvm.org) as a backend to compile scripts to BPF-bytecode and makes use of [BCC](https://github.com/iovisor/bcc) for interacting with the Linux BPF system.
BPFtrace is a high-level tracing language for Linux enhanced Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) available in recent Linux kernels (4.x). BPFtrace uses LLVM as a backend to compile scripts to BPF-bytecode and makes use of [BCC](https://github.com/iovisor/bcc) for interacting with the Linux BPF system, as well as existing Linux tracing capabilities: kernel dynamic tracing (kprobes), user-level dynamic tracing (uprobes), and tracepoints. The BPFtrace language is inspired by awk and C, and predecessor tracers such as DTrace and SystemTap.
For instructions on building BPFtrace, see [INSTALL.md](INSTALL.md)
