The 2025 Tracing Summit is a two-day, single-track conference on the topic of tracing. The event focuses on software and hardware tracing, gathering developers and end-users of tracing and trace analysis tools. The main goal of the Tracing Summit is to provide space for discussion between people of the various areas that benefit from tracing, namely parallel, distributed and/or real-time systems, as well as kernel development.

• September 2-3 in Montréal, Quebec, Canada and virtually

Important Dates

• Call for proposals closes: Friday, June 13, 2025 at 11:59PM EDT
• Call for proposal notifications: Friday, June 20, 2025
• Schedule announcement: Tuesday, June 25, 2025
• Event dates: Tuesday, September 2, 2025 - Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Presentations

We are welcoming 30 minute presentations from both end users and developers, on topics including, but not limited to:

• Investigation workflow of Real-Time, latency, and throughput issues,
• Trace collection and extraction,
• Trace filtering,
• Trace aggregation,
• Trace formats,
• Tracing multi-core systems,
• Trace abstraction,
• Trace modeling,
• Automated trace analysis (e.g. dependency analysis),
• Tracing large clusters and distributed systems,
• Hardware-level tracing (e.g. DSP, GPU, bare-metal),
• Trace visualisation,
• Interaction between debugging and tracing,
• Tracing remote control,
• Analysis of large trace datasets,
• Cloud trace collection and analysis,
• Integration between trace tools,
• Live tracing & monitoring,
• Dynamic instrumentation,
• Programmable tracing (e.g. eBPF).

Talks can cover recently available technologies, ongoing work, and yet non-existing technologies (that are compelling to end-users). Talks covering interesting or challenging tracing use cases are also welcome as they can reveal future directions or tooling needs.

Please understand that this open forum is not the proper place to present sales or marketing pitches, nor technologies which are prevented from being freely used in open source.

Details

• Audience: Speakers may assume that attendees have a basic knowledge of the principles of tracing and existing tracing tools.
• Complementary passes: The main presenter of each talk will receive a Tracing Summit pass free of charge. Attendees passes are also free of charge, but a certain quantity is reserved for speakers.
• Slides: Slides for all accepted talks must be submitted before the event and will be published on the Tracing Summit website.

Contact

Please send any questions about this conference to info@tracingsummit.org.

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This event is organized by EfficiOS on behalf of the Linux Foundation Diagnostic and Monitoring Workgroup.

You can enter proposals until 2025-06-13 23:59 (UTC), 1 month from now.