The old preflight opened one generic event, which said little about whether the client's actual setup would work. PreflightSamplingEvent now opens the client's exact external event shape (the per-CPU pid-filtered CPU_CLOCK callstack event of SysTraceStart), verifies the ring mmap works, and probes the hardware PMU counters informationally. On EACCES/EPERM retry user-space only - both event and callchain, since the callchain part still requires perf_allow_kernel - and report kernel frames as unavailable; any other error is fatal, as the client's identical shape would fail the same way.
Tracy Profiler
A real time, nanosecond resolution, remote telemetry, hybrid frame and sampling profiler for games and other applications.
Tracy supports profiling CPU (Direct support is provided for C, C++, Lua, Python and Fortran integration. At the same time, third-party bindings to many other languages exist on the internet, such as Rust, Zig, C#, OCaml, Odin, etc.), GPU (All major graphics/compute APIs: OpenGL, Vulkan, Direct3D 11/12, Metal, OpenCL, CUDA, WebGPU.), memory allocations, locks, context switches, automatically attribute screenshots to captured frames, and much more.
- Documentation for usage and build process instructions
- Releases containing the documentation (
tracy.pdf) and compiled Windows x64 binaries (Tracy-<version>.7z) as assets - Changelog
- Interactive demo
An Introduction to Tracy Profiler in C++ - Marcos Slomp - CppCon 2023
Introduction to Tracy Profiler v0.2
New features in Tracy Profiler v0.3
New features in Tracy Profiler v0.4
New features in Tracy Profiler v0.5
New features in Tracy Profiler v0.6
New features in Tracy Profiler v0.7
New features in Tracy Profiler v0.8



