TRACED(8)

NAME

traced - The Perfetto Tracing Service

DESCRIPTION

traced is the central daemon in Perfetto's service-based architecture. It acts as the grand central station for all tracing activity on the system, mediating interactions between entities that want to record data (Producers) and entities that want to control and read traces (Consumers).

In a typical system-wide tracing setup (like on Android or Linux), traced runs as a long-lived background daemon, often started at system boot.

Architecture

Perfetto's architecture is designed for security and robustness, with traced at its core. The model consists of three main components:

• Consumers: Trusted clients that configure and initiate tracing sessions. The perfetto command-line tool is a common example of a consumer.
• Service (traced): The central daemon that manages tracing sessions, buffers, and the registry of data sources.
• Producers: Untrusted clients that produce trace data. Producers advertise their available data sources to traced. A key example of a producer is