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Zimuzo Ezeozue <zezeozue@google.com>
Tue Jan 27 23:09:20 2026 +0000
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Zimuzo Ezeozue <zezeozue@google.com>
Wed Jan 28 00:08:20 2026 +0000
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ddf680bdad27800be8032f39980bbadf4eb9d119
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ui: D3-based interactive charting system

Features:
- 9 chart types: bar, histogram, CDF, scatter, boxplot, heatmap, line,
donut, violin
- Interactive brush selection on all charts
- Cross-chart filtering with FilterStore coordination
- Custom data source support: Memory, SQL (local trace) and HTTP
- Chart-to-table and table-to-chart filter synchronization
- Configurable selection behavior (opacity vs filter propagation)

Architecture:
- BaseRenderer provides shared functionality (axes, grid, tooltips,
brush setup)
- Chart-specific renderers handle specialized rendering and interactions
- SelectionStrategy pattern separates visual feedback from filter logic
- FilterStore manages filter groups with history
- TooltipFormatter provides consistent tooltip formatting

Plugin
- D3ChartsPage component for query execution and chart management
- SQL editor with keyboard shortcuts
- Default charts (histogram, bar) auto-created on query execution
- Sidebar for manual chart/table creation

BigTrace integration:
- New BigTrace app with sidebar navigation
- Utilizes the D3ChartsPage plugin and chart http data source for querying

Test: Manual
Change-Id: I9279bde00b89065b4c818c70220194956daa83ce
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README.md

Perfetto - System profiling, app tracing and trace analysis

Perfetto is an open-source suite of SDKs, daemons and tools which use tracing to help developers understand the behaviour of complex systems and root-cause functional and performance issues on client and embedded systems.

It is a production-grade tool that is the default tracing system for the Android operating system and the Chromium browser.

Core Components

Perfetto is not a single tool, but a collection of components that work together:

  • High-performance tracing daemons: For capturing tracing information from many processes on a single machine into a unified trace file.
  • Low-overhead tracing SDK: A C++17 library for direct userspace-to-userspace tracing of timings and state changes in your application.
  • Extensive OS-level probes: For capturing system-wide context on Android and Linux (e.g. scheduling states, CPU frequencies, memory profiling, callstack sampling).
  • Browser-based UI: A powerful, fully local UI for visualizing and exploring large, multi-GB traces on a timeline. It works in all major browsers, requires no installation, and can open traces from other tools.
  • SQL-based analysis library: A powerful engine that allows you to programmatically query traces using SQL to automate analysis and extract custom metrics.

Why Use Perfetto?

Perfetto was designed to be a versatile and powerful tracing system for a wide range of use cases.

  • For Android App & Platform Developers: Debug and root-cause functional and performance issues like slow startups, dropped frames (jank), animation glitches, low memory kills, and ANRs. Profile both Java/Kotlin and native C++ memory usage with heap dumps and profiles.
  • For C/C++ Developers (Linux, macOS, Windows): Use the Tracing SDK to instrument your application with custom trace points to understand its execution flow, find performance bottlenecks, and debug complex behavior. On Linux, you can also perform detailed CPU and native heap profiling.
  • For Linux Kernel & System Developers: Get deep insights into kernel behavior. Perfetto acts as an efficient userspace daemon for ftrace, allowing you to visualize scheduling, syscalls, interrupts, and custom kernel tracepoints on a timeline.
  • For Chromium Developers: Perfetto is the tracing backend for chrome://tracing. Use it to debug and root-cause issues in the browser, V8, and Blink.
  • For Performance Engineers & SREs: Analyze and visualize a wide range of profiling and tracing formats, not just Perfetto's. Use the powerful SQL interface to programmatically analyze traces from tools like Linux perf, macOS Instruments, Chrome JSON traces, and more.

Getting Started

We‘ve designed our documentation to guide you to the right information as quickly as possible, whether you’re a newcomer to performance analysis or an experienced developer.

  1. New to tracing? If you're unfamiliar with concepts like tracing and profiling, start here:

  2. Ready to dive in? Our “Getting Started” guide is the main entry point for all users. It will help you find the right tutorials and documentation for your specific needs:

  3. Want the full overview? For a comprehensive look at what Perfetto is, why it's useful, and who uses it, see our main documentation page:

Debian Distribution

For users interested in the Debian distribution of Perfetto, the official source of truth and packaging efforts are maintained at Debian Perfetto Salsa Repository

Community & Support

Have questions? Need help?

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