google/perfetto

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Perfetto is an open-source suite of SDKs, daemons, and tools for production-grade system profiling, app tracing, and trace analysis on client and embedded systems. It is the default tracing system for Android and Chromium, offering a low-overhead C++ tracing SDK, OS-level probes, a browser-based trace viewer, and a SQL-based trace analysis engine.

Use cases

• debug android app jank and slow startups
• profile cpu and memory usage on linux
• instrument c++ application with trace points
• visualize large multi-gb traces on a timeline
• query traces with sql to extract metrics
• trace linux kernel scheduling and syscalls
• analyze chrome json traces and perf data
• root-cause anrs and low memory kills on android

When to choose

• you need low-overhead tracing on android or linux
• you want to correlate app-level events with system-wide profiling data
• you need to analyze very large traces with sql
• you want a browser-based offline trace viewer
• you are developing for android or chromium

When to avoid

• you need distributed tracing across many machines like jaeger or zipkin
• you only need simple application logging rather than timeline tracing
• you need a managed cloud profiling service
• your target platform is not android, linux, or a browser

Facets

framework · maturity stable

tracing monitoring benchmarking data-visualization analytics developer-tools performance operating-systems mobile-development web-development windows browser cpp python trace-viewer ftrace system-profiling sql-trace-analysis android-tracing chromium-tracing heap-profiling callstack-sampling linux macos android

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