# bpftrace

6 Hacker News commenters recommended bpftrace and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend bpftrace for debugging and diagnosing Linux systems with eBPF, and say it has become easier to write and understand.

## Why people recommend it

- Useful for debugging and diagnostics (2 comments): "eBPF is a great tool to use for debugging this kind of thing too" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47569324)) "gives you better diagnostics" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45824922))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [DTrace](https://hackerapproved.com/p/dtrace.md): 12 recommend
- [strace](https://hackerapproved.com/p/strace.md): 9 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "bpftrace", https://hackerapproved.com/p/bpftrace/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).