bpftrace
Ranked 3 of 3 tracing tools by recommenders
People recommend bpftrace for debugging and diagnosing Linux systems with eBPF, and say it has become easier to write and understand.
People recommend bpftrace for debugging and diagnosing Linux systems with eBPF, and say it has become easier to write and understand.
6 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Useful for debugging and diagnostics
“eBPF is a great tool to use for debugging this kind of thing too”
Comment from 30 Mar 2026 in “Claude Code runs Git reset –hard origin/main against project repo every 10 mins” “gives you better diagnostics”
Comment from 5 Nov 2025 in “An eBPF loophole: Using XDP for egress traffic”
Other tracing tools people recommend
The two most recommended other tracing tools, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
See all 3 tracing tools, rankedWhat people said
5 of the 6 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“eBPF is a great tool to use for debugging this kind of thing too”
“making modern security tools like Falco, bpftrace, Tracee, Cilium are completely blind”
“bpftrace suddenly became much more understandable and easier to write as well”
“gives you better diagnostics”
“parse fs events from bcc and libdtrace with python would be great”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.