NAME

       gethostlatency.bt - Show latency for getaddrinfo/gethostbyname[2] calls. Uses bpftrace/eBPF.

SYNOPSIS

       gethostlatency.bt

DESCRIPTION

       This traces and prints when getaddrinfo(), gethostbyname(), and gethostbyname2() are called, system wide,
       and shows the responsible PID and command name, latency of the call (duration) in milliseconds,  and  the
       host string.

       This  tool  can be useful for identifying DNS latency, by identifying which remote host name lookups were
       slow, and by how much.

       This  tool  currently  uses  dynamic  tracing  of  user-level  functions  and  registers,  and  may  need
       modifications to match your software and processor architecture.

       Since this uses BPF, only the root user can use this tool.

REQUIREMENTS

       CONFIG_BPF and bcc.

EXAMPLES

       Trace host lookups (getaddrinfo/gethostbyname[2]) system wide:
              # gethostlatency.bt

FIELDS

       TIME   Time of the command (HH:MM:SS).

       PID    Process ID of the client performing the call.

       COMM   Process (command) name of the client performing the call.

       LATms  Latency of the call, in milliseconds.

       HOST   Host name string: the target of the lookup.

OVERHEAD

       The rate of lookups should be relatively low, so the overhead is not expected to be a problem.

SOURCE

       This is from bpftrace.

              https://github.com/iovisor/bpftrace

       Also  look  in  the  bpftrace  distribution  for a companion _examples.txt file containing example usage,
       output, and commentary for this tool.

       This is a bpftrace version of the bcc tool of the same name. The bcc tool provides command line options.

              https://github.com/iovisor/bcc

OS

       Linux

STABILITY

       Unstable - in development.

AUTHOR

       Brendan Gregg

SEE ALSO

       tcpdump(8)