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Hotspot 1.0: Linux Perf Gets A GUI

Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 6 July 2017 at 08:09 AM EDT. 2 Comments

Consulting firm KDAB has announced their newest research and development project, Hotspot. The Hotspot program is a Qt-powered GUI to the Linux perf subsystem.

With Hotspot it's now more user-friendly to make use of the Linux perf subsystem's various metrics and profiling capabilities via a nice GUI. Hotspot in its public 1.0 form allows a summary view, bottom-up/top-down/caller/callee views, searching, an integrated flame graph, the ability to show multiple event metrics side-by-side, and more.

More details on Hotspot 1.0 via its kernel mailing list announcement. Many more details on this new Linux GUI perf profiler via the KDAB project site.

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