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BABELTRACE2-RUN(1)         Babeltrace 2 manual        BABELTRACE2-RUN(1)

NAME         top

       babeltrace2-run - Create a Babeltrace 2 trace processing graph
       and run it

SYNOPSIS         top

       babeltrace2 [GENERAL OPTIONS] run [--retry-duration=TIME-US]
                   --connect=CONN-RULE... COMPONENTS

DESCRIPTION         top

       The run command creates a Babeltrace 2 trace processing graph and
       runs it.

       See babeltrace2-intro(7) to learn more about the Babeltrace 2
       project and its core concepts.

       The run command dynamically loads Babeltrace 2 plugins which
       supply component classes. With the run command, you specify which
       component classes to instantiate as components and how to connect
       them.

       The steps to write a babeltrace2 run command line are:

        1. Specify which component classes to instantiate as components
           with many --component options and how to configure them.

           This is the COMPONENTS part of the synopsis. See “Create
           components” to learn more.

        2. Specify how to connect components together with one or more
           --connect options.

           See “Connect components” to learn more.

           Note

           The babeltrace2-convert(1) command is a specialization of the
           run command for the very common case of converting one or
           more traces: it generates a run command line and executes it.
           You can use its --run-args or --run-args-0 option to make it
           print the equivalent run command line instead.

   Create components
       To create a component, use the --component option. This option
       specifies:

       •   The name of the component, unique amongst all the component
           names of the trace processing graph.

       •   The type of the component class to instantiate: source,
           filter, or sink.

       •   The name of the plugin in which to find the component class
           to instantiate.

       •   The name of the component class to instantiate.

       Use the --component option multiple times to create multiple
       components. You can instantiate the same component class multiple
       times as different components.

       At any point in the command line, the --base-params sets the
       current base initialization parameters and the --reset-base-
       params resets them. When you specify a --component option, its
       initial initialization parameters are a copy of the current base
       initialization parameters.

       Immediately following a --component option on the command line,
       the created component is known as the current component (until
       the next --component option).

       The --params=PARAMS option adds parameters to the current
       component’s initialization parameters. If PARAMS contains a key
       which exists in the current component’s initialization
       parameters, this parameter is replaced.

   Connect components
       The components which you create from component classes with the
       --component option (see “Create components”) add input and output
       ports depending on their type. An output port is from where
       messages, like trace events, are sent. An input port is where
       messages are received. For a given component, each port has a
       unique name.

       The purpose of the run command is to create a trace processing
       graph, that is, to know which component ports to connect
       together. The command achieves this with the help of the
       connection rules that you provide with one or more
       --connect=CONN-RULE options.

       The format of CONN-RULE is:

           UP-COMP-PAT[.UP-PORT-PAT]:DOWN-COMP-PAT[.DOWN-PORT-PAT]

       UP-COMP-PAT
           Upstream component name pattern.

       UP-PORT-PAT
           Upstream (output) port name pattern.

       DOWN-COMP-PAT
           Downstream component name pattern.

       DOWN-PORT-PAT
           Downstream (input) port name pattern.

       When a source or filter component adds a new output port within
       the processing graph, the run command does the following to find
       an input port to connect it to:

           For each connection rule (--connect options, in order):
             If the output port's component's name matches UP-COMP-PAT and the
             output port's name matches UP-PORT-PAT:
               For each component COMP in the trace processing graph:
                 If the name of COMP matches DOWN-COMP-PAT:
                   Select the first input port of COMP of which the name matches
                   DOWN-PORT-PAT, or fail with no match.

           No possible connection: fail with no match.

       UP-COMP-PAT, UP-PORT-PAT, DOWN-COMP-PAT, and DOWN-PORT-PAT are
       globbing patterns where only the wildcard character, *, is
       special: it matches zero or more characters. You must escape the
       *, ?, [, ., :, and \ characters with \.

       When you do not specify UP-PORT-PAT or DOWN-PORT-PAT, they are
       equivalent to *.

       You can leverage this connection mechanism to specify fallbacks
       with a careful use of wildcards, as the order of the --connect
       options on the command line is significant. For example:

           --connect='A.out*:B.in*' --connect=A:B --connect='*:C'

       With those connection rules, the run command connects:

       •   Any output port of which the name starts with out of
           component A to the first input port of which the name starts
           with in of component B.

       •   Any other output port of component A to the first available
           input port of component B.

       •   Any other output port (of any component except A) to the
           first available input port of component C.

       The run command fails when it cannot find an input port to which
       to connect a given output port using the provided connection
       rules.

       See “EXAMPLES” for more examples.

OPTIONS         top

   General
       You can use those options before the command name.

       See babeltrace2(1) for more details.

       -d, --debug
           Legacy option: this is equivalent to --log-level=TRACE.

       -l LVL, --log-level=LVL
           Set the log level of all known Babeltrace 2 loggers to LVL.

       --omit-home-plugin-path
           Do not search for plugins in
           $HOME/.local/lib/babeltrace2/plugins.

       --omit-system-plugin-path
           Do not search for plugins in
           /usr/local/lib/babeltrace2/plugins.

       --plugin-path=PATH[:PATH]...
           Add PATH to the list of paths in which plugins can be found.

       -v, --verbose
           Legacy option: this is equivalent to --log-level=INFO.

   Component creation
       See “Create components” for more details.

       -b PARAMS, --base-params=PARAMS
           Set the current base parameters to PARAMS.

           You can reset the current base parameters with the --reset-
           base-params option.

           See the --params option for the format of PARAMS.

       -c NAME:COMP-CLS-TYPE.PLUGIN-NAME.COMP-CLS-NAME,
       --component=NAME:COMP-CLS-TYPE.PLUGIN-NAME.COMP-CLS-NAME
           Create a component named NAME from the component class of
           type COMP-CLS-TYPE named COMP-CLS-NAME found in the plugin
           named PLUGIN-NAME, and set it as the current component.

           The available values for TYPE are:

           source, src
               Source component class.

           filter, flt
               Filter component class.

           sink
               Sink component class.

           The initial initialization parameters of this component are
           copied from the current base initialization parameters (see
           the --base-params option).

       -l LVL, --log-level=LVL
           Set the log level of the current component to LVL.

           The available values for LVL are:

           NONE, N
               Logging is disabled.

           FATAL, F
               Severe errors that lead the execution to abort
               immediately.

               This level should be enabled in production.

           ERROR, E
               Errors that might still allow the execution to continue.

               Usually, once one or more errors are reported at this
               level, the application, plugin, or library won’t perform
               any more useful task, but it should still exit cleanly.

               This level should be enabled in production.

           WARN, WARNING, W
               Unexpected situations which still allow the execution to
               continue.

               This level should be enabled in production.

           INFO, I
               Informational messages that highlight progress or
               important states of the application, plugins, or library.

               This level can be enabled in production.

           DEBUG, D
               Debugging information, with a higher level of details
               than the TRACE level.

               This level should NOT be enabled in production.

           TRACE, T
               Low-level debugging context information.

               This level should NOT be enabled in production.

       -p PARAMS, --params=PARAMS
           Add PARAMS to the initialization parameters of the current
           component.

           If PARAMS contains a key which exists in the current
           component’s initialization parameters, replace the parameter.

           The format of PARAMS is a comma-separated list of NAME=VALUE
           assignments:

               NAME=VALUE[,NAME=VALUE]...

           NAME
               Parameter name (C identifier plus the :, ., and -
               characters).

           VALUE
               One of:

               •   null, nul, NULL: null value.

               •   true, TRUE, yes, YES: true boolean value.

               •   false, FALSE, no, NO: false boolean value.

               •   Binary (0b prefix), octal (0 prefix), decimal, or
                   hexadecimal (0x prefix) unsigned (with + prefix) or
                   signed 64-bit integer.

               •   Double precision floating point number (scientific
                   notation is accepted).

               •   Unquoted string with no special characters, and not
                   matching any of the null and boolean value symbols
                   above.

               •   Double-quoted string (accepts escape characters).

               •   Array, formatted as an opening [, a comma-separated
                   list of VALUE, and a closing ].

               •   Map, formatted as an opening {, a comma-separated
                   list of NAME=VALUE assignments, and a closing }.

               You may put whitespaces around the individual =
               (assignment), , (separator), [ (array beginning), ]
               (array end), { (map beginning), and } (map end)
               characters.

           Example:

               --params='many=null, fresh=yes, condition=false, squirrel=-782329,
                         play=+23, observe=3.14, simple=beef,
                         needs-quotes="some string",
                         escape.chars-are:allowed="a \" quote",
                         things=[1, "hello", 2.71828],
                         frog={slow=2, bath=[bike, 23], blind=NO}'

               Important
               Like in the example above, make sure to single-quote the
               whole argument when you run this command from a shell, as
               it can contain many special characters.

       -r, --reset-base-params
           Reset the current base parameters.

           You can set the current base parameters with the --base-
           params option.

   Component connection
       -x CONN-RULE, --connect=CONN-RULE
           Add the connection rule CONN-RULE.

           The format of CONN-RULE is:

               UP-COMP-PAT[.UP-PORT-PAT]:DOWN-COMP-PAT[.DOWN-PORT-PAT]

           UP-COMP-PAT
               Upstream component name pattern.

           UP-PORT-PAT
               Upstream (output) port name pattern.

           DOWN-COMP-PAT
               Downstream component name pattern.

           DOWN-PORT-PAT
               Downstream (input) port name pattern.

           See “Connect components” to learn more.

   Graph configuration
       --retry-duration=TIME-US
           Set the duration of a single retry to TIME-US µs when a sink
           component reports "try again later" (busy network or file
           system, for example).

           Default: 100000 (100 ms).

   Command information
       -h, --help
           Show the command’s help and quit.

EXAMPLES         top

       Example 1. Create a single-port source component and a
       single-port sink component and connect them.

           $ babeltrace2 run --component=A:src.plug.my-src \
                             --component=B:sink.plug.my-sink \
                             --connect=A:B

       Possible resulting graph:

           +-----------------+    +-------------------+
           | src.plug.my-src |    | sink.plug.my-sink |
           |       [A]       |    |         [B]       |
           |                 |    |                   |
           |             out @--->@ in                |
           +-----------------+    +-------------------+

       Example 2. Use the --params option to set the current component’s
       initialization parameters.

       In this example, the --params option only applies to component
       the-source.

           $ babeltrace2 run --component=the-source:src.my-plugin.my-src \
                             --params=offset=123,flag=true \
                             --component=the-sink:sink.my-plugin.my-sink \
                             --connect=the-source:the-sink

       Example 3. Use the --base-params and --reset-base-params options
       to set and reset the current base initialization parameters.

       In this example, the effective initialization parameters of the
       created components are:

       Component A
           offset=1203, flag=false

       Component B
           offset=1203, flag=true, type=event

       Component C
           ratio=0.25

           $ babeltrace2 run --base-params=offset=1203,flag=false \
                             --component=A:src.plugin.compcls \
                             --component=B:flt.plugin.compcls \
                             --params=flag=true,type=event \
                             --reset-base-params \
                             --component=C:sink.plugin.compcls \
                             --params=ratio=0.25 \
                             --connect=A:B --connect=B:C

       Example 4. Specify a component connection fallback rule.

       In this example, any A output port of which the name starts with
       foo is connected to a B input port of which the name starts with
       nin. Any other A output port is connected to a B input port of
       which the name starts with oth.

       The order of the --connect options is important here: the
       opposite order would create a system in which the first rule is
       always satisfied, and any A output port, whatever its name, would
       be connected to a B input port with a name that starts with oth.

           $ babeltrace2 run --component=A:src.plug.my-src \
                             --component=B:sink.plug.my-sink \
                             --connect='A.foo*:B:nin*' --connect='A:B.oth*'

       Possible resulting graph:

           +-----------------+    +-------------------+
           | src.plug.my-src |    | sink.plug.my-sink |
           |       [A]       |    |        [B]        |
           |                 |    |                   |
           |            foot @--->@ nine              |
           |         foodies @--->@ ninja             |
           |       some-port @--->@ othello           |
           |           hello @--->@ other             |
           +-----------------+    +-------------------+

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES         top

   Babeltrace 2 library
       BABELTRACE_EXEC_ON_ABORT=CMDLINE
           Execute the command line CMDLINE, as parsed like a UNIX 98
           shell, when any part of the Babeltrace 2 project unexpectedly
           aborts.

           The application only aborts when the executed command
           returns, ignoring its exit status.

           This environment variable is ignored when the application has
           the setuid or the setgid access right flag set.

       BABELTRACE_TERM_COLOR=(AUTO | NEVER | ALWAYS)
           Force the terminal color support for the babeltrace2(1)
           program and the project’s plugins.

           The available values are:

           AUTO
               Only emit terminal color codes when the standard output
               and error streams are connected to a color-capable
               terminal.

           NEVER
               Never emit terminal color codes.

           ALWAYS
               Always emit terminal color codes.

       BABELTRACE_TERM_COLOR_BRIGHT_MEANS_BOLD=0
           Set to 0 to emit SGR (see
           <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code>) codes 90 to
           97 for bright colors instead of bold (SGR code 1) and
           standard color codes (SGR codes 30 to 37).

       BABELTRACE_PLUGIN_PATH=PATHS
           Set the list of directories, in order, in which dynamic
           plugins can be found before other directories are considered
           to PATHS (colon-separated, or semicolon on Windows).

       LIBBABELTRACE2_DISABLE_PYTHON_PLUGINS=1
           Disable the loading of any Babeltrace 2 Python plugin.

       LIBBABELTRACE2_INIT_LOG_LEVEL=LVL
           Force the Babeltrace 2 library’s initial log level to be LVL.

           If this environment variable is set, it overrides the log
           level set by the --log-level option for the Babeltrace 2
           library logger.

           The available values for LVL are:

           NONE, N
               Logging is disabled.

           FATAL, F
               Severe errors that lead the execution to abort
               immediately.

               This level should be enabled in production.

           ERROR, E
               Errors that might still allow the execution to continue.

               Usually, once one or more errors are reported at this
               level, the application, plugin, or library won’t perform
               any more useful task, but it should still exit cleanly.

               This level should be enabled in production.

           WARN, WARNING, W
               Unexpected situations which still allow the execution to
               continue.

               This level should be enabled in production.

           INFO, I
               Informational messages that highlight progress or
               important states of the application, plugins, or library.

               This level can be enabled in production.

           DEBUG, D
               Debugging information, with a higher level of details
               than the TRACE level.

               This level should NOT be enabled in production.

           TRACE, T
               Low-level debugging context information.

               This level should NOT be enabled in production.

       LIBBABELTRACE2_NO_DLCLOSE=1
           Make the Babeltrace 2 library leave any dynamically loaded
           modules (plugins and plugin providers) open at exit. This can
           be useful for debugging purposes.

       LIBBABELTRACE2_PLUGIN_PROVIDER_DIR=DIR
           Set the directory from which the Babeltrace 2 library
           dynamically loads plugin provider shared objects to DIR.

           If this environment variable is set, it overrides the default
           plugin provider directory.

   Babeltrace 2 Python bindings
       BABELTRACE_PYTHON_BT2_LOG_LEVEL=LVL
           Force the Babeltrace 2 Python bindings log level to be LVL.

           If this environment variable is set, it overrides the log
           level set by the --log-level option for the Python bindings
           logger.

           The available values for LVL are:

           NONE, N
               Logging is disabled.

           FATAL, F
               Severe errors that lead the execution to abort
               immediately.

               This level should be enabled in production.

           ERROR, E
               Errors that might still allow the execution to continue.

               Usually, once one or more errors are reported at this
               level, the application, plugin, or library won’t perform
               any more useful task, but it should still exit cleanly.

               This level should be enabled in production.

           WARN, WARNING, W
               Unexpected situations which still allow the execution to
               continue.

               This level should be enabled in production.

           INFO, I
               Informational messages that highlight progress or
               important states of the application, plugins, or library.

               This level can be enabled in production.

           DEBUG, D
               Debugging information, with a higher level of details
               than the TRACE level.

               This level should NOT be enabled in production.

           TRACE, T
               Low-level debugging context information.

               This level should NOT be enabled in production.

   CLI
       BABELTRACE_CLI_LOG_LEVEL=LVL
           Force babeltrace2 CLI’s log level to be LVL.

           If this environment variable is set, it overrides the log
           level set by the --log-level option for the CLI logger.

           The available values for LVL are:

           NONE, N
               Logging is disabled.

           FATAL, F
               Severe errors that lead the execution to abort
               immediately.

               This level should be enabled in production.

           ERROR, E
               Errors that might still allow the execution to continue.

               Usually, once one or more errors are reported at this
               level, the application, plugin, or library won’t perform
               any more useful task, but it should still exit cleanly.

               This level should be enabled in production.

           WARN, WARNING, W
               Unexpected situations which still allow the execution to
               continue.

               This level should be enabled in production.

           INFO, I
               Informational messages that highlight progress or
               important states of the application, plugins, or library.

               This level can be enabled in production.

           DEBUG, D
               Debugging information, with a higher level of details
               than the TRACE level.

               This level should NOT be enabled in production.

           TRACE, T
               Low-level debugging context information.

               This level should NOT be enabled in production.

       BABELTRACE_CLI_WARN_COMMAND_NAME_DIRECTORY_CLASH=0
           Disable the warning message which babeltrace2-convert(1)
           prints when you convert a trace with a relative path that’s
           also the name of a babeltrace2 command.

       BABELTRACE_DEBUG=1
           Legacy variable: equivalent to setting the --log-level option
           to TRACE.

       BABELTRACE_VERBOSE=1
           Legacy variable: equivalent to setting the --log-level option
           to INFO.

FILES         top

       $HOME/.local/lib/babeltrace2/plugins
           User plugin directory.

       /usr/local/lib/babeltrace2/plugins
           System plugin directory.

       /usr/local/lib/babeltrace2/plugin-providers
           System plugin provider directory.

EXIT STATUS         top

       0 on success, 1 otherwise.

BUGS         top

       If you encounter any issue or usability problem, please report it
       on the Babeltrace bug tracker (see
       <https://bugs.lttng.org/projects/babeltrace>).

RESOURCES         top

       The Babeltrace project shares some communication channels with
       the LTTng project (see <https://lttng.org/>).

       •   Babeltrace website (see <https://babeltrace.org/>)

       •   Mailing list (see <https://lists.lttng.org>) for support and
           development: lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org

       •   IRC channel (see <irc://irc.oftc.net/lttng>): #lttng on
           irc.oftc.net

       •   Bug tracker (see
           <https://bugs.lttng.org/projects/babeltrace>)

       •   Git repository (see
           <https://git.efficios.com/?p=babeltrace.git>)

       •   GitHub project (see <https://github.com/efficios/babeltrace>)

       •   Continuous integration (see
           <https://ci.lttng.org/view/Babeltrace/>)

       •   Code review (see
           <https://review.lttng.org/q/project:babeltrace>)

AUTHORS         top

       The Babeltrace 2 project is the result of hard work by many
       regular developers and occasional contributors.

       The current project maintainer is Jérémie Galarneau
       <mailto:jeremie.galarneau@efficios.com>.

COPYRIGHT         top

       This command is part of the Babeltrace 2 project.

       Babeltrace is distributed under the MIT license (see
       <https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>).

SEE ALSO         top

       babeltrace2-intro(7), babeltrace2(1), babeltrace2-convert(1)

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the babeltrace (trace read and write
       libraries and a trace converter) project.  Information about the
       project can be found at ⟨http://www.efficios.com/babeltrace⟩.  If
       you have a bug report for this manual page, send it to
       lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org.  This page was obtained from the
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       ⟨git://git.efficios.com/babeltrace.git⟩ on 2023-12-22.  (At that
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