Trace your python process line by line with low overhead!

beetrace allows you to trace a Python process line by line or the functions' entries and returns. It uses USDT(User Statically-Defined Tracing) probes with bpftrace.

Dependencies

• This package is only available for Linux and requires bpftrace. You can look at the bpftrace installation here.

• CPython must be configured with the --with-dtrace option.

Installation

pip install beetrace

Usage & Example

To trace the Python process, use the -p parameter to pass the pid value.

beetrace -p {pid of process}

Let's take a look at the quick example.

---

$ cat -n example.py
1 import os
2 from time import sleep
3
4
5 def c():
6     x = 1
7
8 def b():
9     y = 2
10    c()
11
12
13 def a():
14     z = 1
15     b()
16
17
18 while True:
19     print(f"PID of program: {os.getpid()}")
20     sleep(1)
21     print("Sleep 1 second")
22     a()

Output:

PID of program: 17988
Sleep 1 second
PID of program: 17988
Sleep 1 second
PID of program: 17988
Sleep 1 second
PID of program: 17988
...
...
...

$ beetrace -p 17988
___  ____ ____ ___ ____ ____ ____ ____
|__] |___ |___  |  |__/ |__| |    |___
|__] |___ |___  |  |  \ |  | |___ |___

PID: 17988 | Tracing from: python3 example.py

Press Control-C to quit.

Path                                   File:Line                                          Function
/tmp                                   example.py:18                                      <module>
/tmp                                   example.py:19                                      <module>
/tmp                                   example.py:20                                      <module>
/tmp                                   example.py:21                                      <module>
/tmp                                   example.py:22                                      <module>
/tmp                                   example.py:14                                      a
/tmp                                   example.py:15                                      a
/tmp                                   example.py:9                                       b
/tmp                                   example.py:10                                      b
/tmp                                   example.py:6                                       c
/tmp                                   example.py:18                                      <module>
/tmp                                   example.py:19                                      <module>
/tmp                                   example.py:20                                      <module>
/tmp                                   example.py:21                                      <module>
/tmp                                   example.py:22                                      <module>
/tmp                                   example.py:14                                      a
/tmp                                   example.py:15                                      a
/tmp                                   example.py:9                                       b
/tmp                                   example.py:10                                      b
/tmp                                   example.py:6                                       c
/tmp                                   example.py:18                                      <module>
/tmp                                   example.py:19                                      <module>
/tmp                                   example.py:20                                      <module>
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