# bytrace Usage Guidelines - [Overview](#section11388623181619) - [Development Guidelines](#section1595564317164) - [bytrace Commands](#section2344125731617) - [Example Commands](#section5402591174) ## Overview bytrace is a tool for you to trace processes and analyze performance. It encapsulates and extends the kernel ftrace and supports event tracking in the user space. With bytrace, you can open a user-space or kernel-space label you want to view \(run the **bytrace -l** command to query all the supported labels\) and run the **--trace\_begin** and **-o filename** \(or **--output filename**\) commands to capture traces and dump them to a specified file. ## Development Guidelines ### bytrace Commands bytrace supports the following commands: **Table 1** Commands