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At undo.io we're interested in using our time travel capability beyond conventional time travel debugging - a recording file contains everything the program did, without any advance knowledge of what you need to sample, so there's a lot of potential to get other data out of it.

I just read your post and don't think it would take much to integrate with some of the visualisations you posted about, as a first step.

We've played around in the past with a sampling profiler (code here, requires a copy of our product to be useful though it could easily port to rr): https://github.com/undoio/addons/tree/master/sample_function... which can output in a format understood by Brendan Gregg's flame frames (https://www.brendangregg.com/flamegraphs.html)

But that's not quite the kind of tracing you're talking about. We also built a printf-style interface to our recording files, which seems closer: https://docs.undo.io/PostFailureLogging.html

Something like that but outputting trace events that can be consumed by Perfetto (say) would not be so hard to add. If we considered modifying the core record/replay engine then even more powerful things become possible.



I've seen undo.io several times at cppcon. I've been throughly impressed with the demonstrations at the conference and came to this thread specifically to recommend undo.io. I was particularly impressed this year by a demonstration of debugging stack smashing -- that's something I recently worked around stack smashing in protobuf which happens before `main()` even starts. It seems perfect for undo.io to help debug :)

I'm still waiting on the keyserver to be able to run in Kubernetes though


> I was particularly impressed this year by a demonstration of debugging stack smashing

I'm glad you liked it - and that's useful feedback for other demos we give!

> I'm still waiting on the keyserver to be able to run in Kubernetes though

I believe support for that is on the way. If you're already in touch then I imagine you'll get an announcement soon.




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