4 Welcome to the **LTTng Documentation**!
6 The _Linux Trace Toolkit: next generation_ is an open source software
7 toolkit which you can use to simultaneously trace the Linux kernel, user
8 applications, and user libraries.
12 * Kernel modules to trace the Linux kernel.
13 * Shared libraries to trace user applications written in C or C++.
14 * Java packages to trace Java applications which use `java.util.logging`
16 * A Python package to trace Python applications which use the standard
18 * A kernel module to trace shell scripts and other user applications
19 without a dedicated instrumentation mechanism.
20 * Daemons and a command-line tool, cmd:lttng, to control the
24 .Open source documentation
26 This is an **open documentation**: its source is available in a
27 https://github.com/lttng/lttng-docs[public Git repository].
29 Should you find any error in the content of this text, any grammatical
30 mistake, or any dead link, we would be very grateful if you would file a
31 GitHub issue for it or, even better, contribute a patch to this
32 documentation by creating a pull request.