Bpftracer

A slightly smarter bpftrace extension, featuring diagnostics and completions as well as syntax highlighting.

• ERRORS will be highlighted in red.
• Type a colon to autocomplete attach points.
• Type a $ or @ to autocomplete variables.

Installation

This extension works by running bpftrace on your file to get diagnostics and bpftrace -l to list valid probes. You will need to setup passwordless sudo for bpftrace for this to work, because bpftrace only runs as root unfortunately. Here is a one-liner to perform the setup:

echo "$(whoami) ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/bpftrace" | sudo tee /etc/sudoers.d/bpftrace-nopass