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DTrace

Built-in performance analysis and troubleshooting tool

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DTrace is a performance analysis and troubleshooting tool included by default with various operating systems, including Solaris, Mac OS X and FreeBSD. A Linux port is in development. It instruments all software, including user-level applications, databases, webservers, the operating system kernel and device drivers. The name is short for Dynamic Tracing, an instrumentation technique that patches a

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    Covers 6 of 15 key features and has a free plan.

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    Covers 5 of 15 key features and has a free plan.

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    Covers 10 of 15 key features and has a free plan.

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    Covers 8 of 15 key features, has a free plan and is open source.

    Free planOpen source
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    Covers 9 of 15 key features, has a free plan and is open source.

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    57 out of 100 matchContact sales

  7. Uptrace

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    Covers 2 of 15 key features, has a free plan and is open source.

    Free planOpen source
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  8. Trackingplan

    Your digital analytics agent for performance and martech.

    Covers 7 of 15 key features.

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  9. Advanced Serial Port Monitor

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    Covers 9 of 15 key features and has a free plan.

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    Covers 11 of 15 key features and has a free plan.

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    Covers 6 of 15 key features and has a free plan.

    Free plan
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  12. Stackify

    Full Lifecycle Application Performance Monitoring

    Covers 3 of 15 key features and has a free plan.

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