System Trace Tool 20.0

System Trace Tool by Intel

Intel’s System Trace Tool is a developer-focused utility for capturing, visualizing, and analyzing system-wide behavior on Intel-based platforms. It correlates CPU scheduling, interrupts, device I/O, power states, and application events on a unified timeline, helping teams quickly pinpoint the root cause of performance bottlenecks, stability issues, and power regressions.

Key capabilities:

• End-to-end system tracing across processors, drivers, and applications
• High-resolution, time-synchronized timelines with drill-down views
• Flexible filtering, searching, and event grouping to isolate issues fast
• Bookmarks and annotations to document findings and share insights
• Support for live capture and offline analysis of large trace sessions
• Export options for archiving, collaboration, and reporting
• Scriptable workflows for automated or repeatable analyses

Ideal use cases:

• Diagnosing latency spikes, race conditions, and lock contention
• Analyzing I/O paths, interrupt behavior, and scheduling anomalies
• Investigating power-state transitions and their impact on performance
• Validating system changes during bring-up, integration, and regression testing

Built for firmware, kernel, driver, and system software developers—as well as performance and validation engineers—the System Trace Tool shortens debug cycles, improves system responsiveness and efficiency, and increases confidence before release.

System Trace Tool is developed by Intel. The most popular versions of this product among our users are: 16.5, 17.0, 17.4, 18.2 and 20.0.

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