BCC

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22637 stars · 4072 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

BPF Compiler Collection (BCC) is a toolkit for writing efficient eBPF-based kernel tracing and manipulation programs, with instrumentation in C and front-ends in Python and Lua. It ships with a large collection of ready-made tools for Linux I/O, networking, and performance analysis.

Use cases

• trace disk I/O latency on Linux
• profile kernel function performance with eBPF
• monitor network traffic at the kernel level
• write custom BPF tracing tools in Python
• debug slow syscalls on a production server
• histogram block device I/O sizes

When to choose

• you need low-overhead kernel instrumentation on Linux 4.1+
• you want ready-made tracing tools plus a framework for custom eBPF programs
• you're doing performance analysis or network traffic control on Linux

When to avoid

• you're on a non-Linux platform
• you need a higher-level observability product rather than a tracing toolkit
• your kernel is older than 4.1 and can't be upgraded

Facets

library · maturity active

monitoring tracing developer-tools developer-tools performance operating-systems networking python cpp cli ebpf bpf kernel-tracing observability performance-analysis kprobes system-instrumentation linux

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