A thorough introduction to bpftrace
Brendan Gregg
AUGUST 18, 2019
For example, iostat(1), or a monitoring agent, may tell you your average disk latency, but not the distribution of this latency. This example instrumented one of many thousands of available events. For smaller environments, it can be of more use helping eliminate latency outliers. Block I/O latency as a histogram.
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