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.

Details

  • Location: Montréal, Québec, Canada and virtually
  • Dates: Tuesday, September 2 and Wednesday, September 3, 2025
  • Cost: free

Registration

This year tickets are free and seating is limited to 40 people. To register fill out this form: Tracing Summit Registration.

Venue

The event will be held at Montréal CoWork, 4388 Saint-Denis, Suite 200. Located in the heart of the Plateau Mont-Royal borough, it is less than a 5 minute walk from the Mont-Royal metro station on the orange line. Please note that there is paid parking (15$/day) behind the venue but it is often full and street parking is very challenging in the area.

Schedule

A provisional schedule is available here.

Presentation Proposals

The Call for Proposals for this event closed on June 13th.

Presentations

We are welcoming 30 minute presentations from both end users and developers, on topics covering, 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 visualization,
  • 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.

Contact

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

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

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