Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2020

KernelShark is a front-end reader of tracing data and its data visualization capabilities have been proven very useful. Nevertheless, there are cases when the user has specific needs, that go beyond what is provided by the built-in visualization model. Although, the user customization was one of the key features incorporated in the design of KernelShark v1, the possibility to write plugins was not taken advantage by the KernelShark users. We believe that this will change with the release of KernelShark 2.0. The new version includes a substantial improvement to the infrastructure for plugins. The plugin development process was greatly simplified, while at the same time the user has more ways to customize. This talk will be a brief overview of how to create your own plugins and will demo some of the new key features in KernelShark 2.0, that are implemented in the form of plugins.