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content-tracing
The content-tracing
module is used to collect tracing data generated by the
underlying Chromium content module. This module does not include a web interface
so you need to open chrome://tracing/
in a Chrome browser and load the
generated file to view the result.
var tracing = require('content-tracing');
tracing.startRecording('*', tracing.DEFAULT_OPTIONS, function() {
console.log('Tracing started');
setTimeout(function() {
tracing.stopRecording('', function(path) {
console.log('Tracing data recorded to ' + path);
});
}, 5000);
});
Methods
The content-tracing
module has the following methods:
tracing.getCategories(callback)
callback
Function
Get a set of category groups. The category groups can change as new code paths are reached.
Once all child processes have acknowledged the getCategories
request the
callback
is invoked with an array of category groups.
tracing.startRecording(categoryFilter, traceOptions, callback)
categoryFilter
StringtraceOptions
Stringcallback
Function
Start recording on all processes.
Recording begins immediately locally and asynchronously on child processes
as soon as they receive the EnableRecording request. Once all child processes
have acknowledged the startRecording
request the callback
will be called.
categoryFilter
is a filter to control what category groups should be
traced. A filter can have an optional -
prefix to exclude category groups
that contain a matching category. Having both included and excluded
category patterns in the same list is not supported.
Examples:
test_MyTest*
,test_MyTest*,test_OtherStuff
,"-excluded_category1,-excluded_category2
traceOptions
controls what kind of tracing is enabled, it is a comma-delimited
list. Possible options are:
record-until-full
record-continuously
trace-to-console
enable-sampling
enable-systrace
The first 3 options are trace recoding modes and hence mutually exclusive.
If more than one trace recording modes appear in the traceOptions
string,
the last one takes precedence. If none of the trace recording modes is
specified, recording mode is record-until-full
.
The trace option will first be reset to the default option (record_mode set to
record-until-full
, enable_sampling and enable_systrace set to false
)
before options parsed from traceOptions
are applied on it.
tracing.stopRecording(resultFilePath, callback)
resultFilePath
Stringcallback
Function
Stop recording on all processes.
Child processes typically are caching trace data and only rarely flush and send trace data back to the main process. That is because it may be an expensive operation to send the trace data over IPC, and we would like to avoid runtime overhead of tracing. So, to end tracing, we must asynchronously ask all child processes to flush any pending trace data.
Once all child processes have acknowledged the stopRecording
request,
callback
will be called with a file that contains the traced data.
Trace data will be written into resultFilePath
if it is not empty or into a
temporary file. The actual file path will be passed to callback
if it's not
null
.
tracing.startMonitoring(categoryFilter, traceOptions, callback)
categoryFilter
StringtraceOptions
Stringcallback
Function
Start monitoring on all processes.
Monitoring begins immediately locally and asynchronously on child processes as
soon as they receive the startMonitoring
request.
Once all child processes have acknowledged the startMonitoring
request the
callback
will be called.
tracing.stopMonitoring(callback)
callback
Function
Stop monitoring on all processes.
Once all child processes have acknowledged the stopMonitoring
request the
callback
is called.
tracing.captureMonitoringSnapshot(resultFilePath, callback)
resultFilePath
Stringcallback
Function
Get the current monitoring traced data.
Child processes are typically caching trace data and only rarely flush and send trace data back to the main process. This is because it may be an expensive operation to send the trace data over IPC and we would like to avoid unneeded runtime overhead from tracing. So, to end tracing, we must asynchronously ask all child processes to flush any pending trace data.
Once all child processes have acknowledged the captureMonitoringSnapshot
request the callback
will be called with a file that contains the traced data.
tracing.getTraceBufferUsage(callback)
callback
Function
Get the maximum usage across processes of trace buffer as a percentage of the
full state. When the TraceBufferUsage value is determined the callback
is
called.
tracing.setWatchEvent(categoryName, eventName, callback)
categoryName
StringeventName
Stringcallback
Function
callback
will will be called every time the given event occurs on any
process.
tracing.cancelWatchEvent()
Cancel the watch event. If tracing is enabled this may race with the watch event callback.