What is system Tap ?

SystemTap provides environment to get more information on almost any component within the kernel so that it may be further analyzed.

• OR

  • SystemTap is tool which provides facility to user to study and monitor the activities of the kernel in detail.

  • What we need to run system tap ?
    • - Need below group of packages to run system tap in system : kernel-debuginfo kernel-debuginfo-common kernel-devel systemtap-runtime gcc