LTTNg tracetools examples with ROS1

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To get it working, you need a few things:

• LTTng https://lttng.org/docs/
• a few repos, as listed in this file: https://github.com/christophebedard/t...
  • modified ROS code that includes the tracing instrumentation: see the ros_comm and roscpp_core repos in the tracing.repos file
  • tracetools, i.e. what actually calls LTTng; this is used/called by the modified ROS code (see tracing.repos file)
  • some ROS user code, e.g. my examples/test cases repo

My current understanding is we have to place ROS::TRACE commands is at critical break points . (Similar to how one would place ROS_INFO , for debug purpose )

Not really. The instrumentation is only for ROS itself, e.g. to provide information about message publication and subscription. You do not need to modify your own code for this. You just need to use the modified/instrumented ROS code and trace it all.

And it is not a replacement for ROS_INFO. If that's what you want, you should consider other solutions.

But everything seems to be happening from the script itself . I guess this is where my confusion is .

As for actually tracing everything, your nodes/ROS is just an application that can be traced using LTTng. Therefore you should check out the LTTng documentation: https://lttng.org/docs/. The trace.sh script is just a simple script that uses LTTng commands (through another script) to enable the right tracepoints, start tracing, run a given application, and stop tracing + cleanup.