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LTTNG-ROTATE(1) LTTng Manual LTTNG-ROTATE(1)
lttng-rotate - Archive a tracing session's current trace chunk
lttng [GENERAL OPTIONS] rotate [--no-wait] [SESSION]
The lttng rotate command archives the current trace chunk of the
current tracing session, or of the tracing session named SESSION if
provided, to the file system. This action is called a tracing session
rotation.
Once a trace chunk is archived, LTTng does not manage it anymore: you
can read it, modify it, move it, or remove it.
An archived trace chunk is a collection of metadata and data stream
files which form a self-contained trace.
The current trace chunk of a given tracing session includes:
· The stream files already written to the file system, and which
are not part of a previously archived trace chunk, since the most
recent event amongst:
· The first time the tracing session was started with
lttng-start(1).
· The last rotation, either an immediate one with lttng rotate,
or an automatic one from a rotation schedule previously set
with lttng-enable-rotation(1).
· The content of all the non-flushed sub-buffers of the tracing
session’s channels.
You can use lttng rotate either at any time when the tracing session
is active (see lttng-start(1)), or a single time once the tracing
session becomes inactive (see lttng-stop(1)).
By default, the lttng rotate command ensures that the rotation is
done before printing the archived trace chunk’s path and returning to
the prompt. The printed path is absolute when the tracing session was
created in normal mode and relative to the relay daemon’s output
directory (see the --output option in lttng-relayd(8)) when it was
created in network streaming mode (see lttng-create(1)).
With the --no-wait option, the command finishes immediately, hence a
rotation might not be completed when the command is done. In this
case, there is no easy way to know when the current trace chunk is
archived, and the command does not print the archived trace chunk’s
path.
Because a rotation causes the tracing session’s current sub-buffers
to be flushed, archived trace chunks are never redundant, that is,
they do not overlap over time like snapshots can (see
lttng-snapshot(1)). Also, a rotation does not directly cause
discarded event records or packets.
See LIMITATIONS for important limitations regarding this command.
Trace chunk archive naming
A trace chunk archive is a subdirectory of a tracing session’s output
directory (see the --output option in lttng-create(1)) which
contains, through tracing domain and possibly UID/PID subdirectories,
metadata and data stream files.
A trace chunk archive is, at the same time:
· A self-contained LTTng trace.
· A member of a set of trace chunk archives which form the complete
trace of a tracing session.
In other words, an LTTng trace reader can read both the tracing
session output directory (all the trace chunk archives), or a single
trace chunk archive.
When a tracing session rotation occurs, the created trace chunk
archive is named:
BEGIN-END-ID
BEGIN
Date and time of the beginning of the trace chunk archive with
the ISO 8601-compatible YYYYmmddTHHMMSS±HHMM form, where YYYYmmdd
is the date and HHMMSS±HHMM is the time with the time zone offset
from UTC.
Example: 20171119T152407-0500
END
Date and time of the end of the trace chunk archive with the ISO
8601-compatible YYYYmmddTHHMMSS±HHMM form, where YYYYmmdd is the
date and HHMMSS±HHMM is the time with the time zone offset from
UTC.
Example: 20180118T152407+0930
ID
Unique numeric identifier of the trace chunk within its tracing
session.
Trace chunk archive name example:
20171119T152407-0500-20171119T151422-0500-3
General options are described in lttng(1).
-n, --no-wait
Do not ensure that the rotation is done before returning to the
prompt.
Program information
-h, --help
Show command help.
This option, like lttng-help(1), attempts to launch /usr/bin/man
to view the command’s man page. The path to the man pager can be
overridden by the LTTNG_MAN_BIN_PATH environment variable.
--list-options
List available command options.
The lttng rotate command only works when:
· The tracing session is created in normal mode or in network
streaming mode (see lttng-create(1)).
· No channel was created with a configured trace file count or size
limit (see the --tracefile-size and --tracefile-count options in
lttng-enable-channel(1)).
· No immediate rotation (lttng rotate) is currently happening.
LTTNG_ABORT_ON_ERROR
Set to 1 to abort the process after the first error is
encountered.
LTTNG_HOME
Overrides the $HOME environment variable. Useful when the user
running the commands has a non-writable home directory.
LTTNG_MAN_BIN_PATH
Absolute path to the man pager to use for viewing help
information about LTTng commands (using lttng-help(1) or lttng
COMMAND --help).
LTTNG_SESSION_CONFIG_XSD_PATH
Path in which the session.xsd session configuration XML schema
may be found.
LTTNG_SESSIOND_PATH
Full session daemon binary path.
The --sessiond-path option has precedence over this environment
variable.
Note that the lttng-create(1) command can spawn an LTTng session
daemon automatically if none is running. See lttng-sessiond(8) for
the environment variables influencing the execution of the session
daemon.
$LTTNG_HOME/.lttngrc
User LTTng runtime configuration.
This is where the per-user current tracing session is stored
between executions of lttng(1). The current tracing session can
be set with lttng-set-session(1). See lttng-create(1) for more
information about tracing sessions.
$LTTNG_HOME/lttng-traces
Default output directory of LTTng traces. This can be overridden
with the --output option of the lttng-create(1) command.
$LTTNG_HOME/.lttng
User LTTng runtime and configuration directory.
$LTTNG_HOME/.lttng/sessions
Default location of saved user tracing sessions (see
lttng-save(1) and lttng-load(1)).
/usr/local/etc/lttng/sessions
System-wide location of saved tracing sessions (see lttng-save(1)
and lttng-load(1)).
Note
$LTTNG_HOME defaults to $HOME when not explicitly set.
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Success
1
Command error
2
Undefined command
3
Fatal error
4
Command warning (something went wrong during the command)
If you encounter any issue or usability problem, please report it on
the LTTng bug tracker <https://bugs.lttng.org/projects/lttng-tools>.
· LTTng project website <https://lttng.org>
· LTTng documentation <https://lttng.org/docs>
· Git repositories <http://git.lttng.org>
· GitHub organization <http://github.com/lttng>
· Continuous integration <http://ci.lttng.org/>
· Mailing list <http://lists.lttng.org> for support and
development: lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org
· IRC channel <irc://irc.oftc.net/lttng>: #lttng on irc.oftc.net
This program is part of the LTTng-tools project.
LTTng-tools is distributed under the GNU General Public License
version 2 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html>.
See the LICENSE <https://github.com/lttng/lttng-
tools/blob/master/LICENSE> file for details.
Special thanks to Michel Dagenais and the DORSAL laboratory
<http://www.dorsal.polymtl.ca/> at École Polytechnique de Montréal
for the LTTng journey.
Also thanks to the Ericsson teams working on tracing which helped us
greatly with detailed bug reports and unusual test cases.
LTTng-tools was originally written by Mathieu Desnoyers, Julien
Desfossez, and David Goulet. More people have since contributed to
it.
LTTng-tools is currently maintained by Jérémie Galarneau
<mailto:jeremie.galarneau@efficios.com>.
lttng-enable-rotation(1), lttng-disable-rotation(1), lttng(1)
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