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. For remote attendees, use this link to access the Teams meeting for the event.

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.

Doors open at 9:00, enter from 4388 St-Denis street and take the elevator to the second floor. The conference will be hosted in the “Bonjour” room to the right side of the lobby. Note that the venue is a shared co-working space, all attendees have access to the common spaces like the lobby, kitchen and roof terrace. Quiet and noisy areas are labeled as such, your cooperation is appreciated.

Coffee, snacks and other beverages will be served in the “Bonjour” room. There is also a café in the lobby where you can purchase speciality coffees, pastries, sandwiches, etc.

Lunch

Lunchtime is from 12:00 to 13:30, lunch is not provided but there are many restaurants in a 5 minute walk radius from the venue mainly on St-Denis and Mont-Royal street.

Recommended options close to the venue:

  • Kawa Café (331 Mont-Royal E): Great sandwiches on bread baked to order.
  • Sammi & Soupe Dumpling (376 Mont-Royal E): Soup dumplings.
  • DaWa chicken (300 Mont-Royal E): Korean fried chicken and other specialties.

Recommended options within a 10 to 15 minutes walk:

  • St-Viateur Bagel (1127 Mont-Royal E): Bagel sandwiches.
  • Romados (115 Rachel): Excellent portugese chicken.
  • Patati Patata (4177 St-Laurent): Tiny diner with great poutine.
  • Beauty’s (93 Mont-Royal W): 80 year old jewish diner.

Evening event

For those who would like to socialise after the conference, we have a reservation on tuesday at the Vice & Versa brewpub starting at 17:30, this being a free event, there is no food or drinks included.

The brewpub is located at 6631 St Laurent Blvd, a solid 40 minute walk. We recommend taking the metro from Mont-Royal to Beaubien station, then it’s a 10 minute walk to the pub.

Schedule

The schedule and details of the talks are 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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