---
name: "hotspot"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "hotspot"
version: "1.3.0-2"
release: "Debian 12 (Bookworm)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/hotspot"
---

# hotspot(1)

Linux perf GUI for performance analysis.

## NAME

hotspot - Linux perf GUI for performance analysis.

## SYNOPSIS

**hotspot** \[*OPTION...*\]*\[*FILE...*\]*

## DESCRIPTION

hotspot is a KDAB R&D effort to create a standalone GUI tool for performance data. This tool now only support perf output data. But is intended to support various other performance data formats in the future.

## OPTIONS

- **-h**, **--help**

  Show help information.

- **-v**, **--version**

  Show version information.

- **--sysroot**, **\<path\>**

  Specify path to sysroot which is used to find libraries.

- **--kallsyms**, **\<path\>**

  Specify path to kallsyms file which is used to resolve kernel symbols

- **--debugPaths**, **\<paths\>**

  Colon separated list of paths that contain debug information.

- **--extraLibPaths**\<paths\>

  Colon separated list of extra paths to find libraries.

- **--appPath**\<path\>

  Specify path to folder containing the application executable and libraries.

- **--arch**\<path\>

  Architecture to use for unwinding.

## AUTHOR

**hotspot** is written by Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, a KDAB Group company \<info@kdab.com\>.

This manual page was written by Yanhao Mo ⟨yanhaocs@gmail.com⟩ for the Debian project (but may be used by others).