---
name: "sysprof"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "sysprof"
version: "48.0-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/sysprof"
---

# sysprof(1)

System-wide Linux Profiler

## NAME

sysprof, sysprof-cli - System-wide Linux Profiler

## SYNOPSIS

**sysprof** \[--version\] \[ *filename* \]\
 **sysprof-cli** *filename*

## DESCRIPTION

**sysprof** is a sampling CPU profiler for Linux that uses ftrace to profile the entire system, not just a single application. Sysprof handles shared libraries and applications do not need to be recompiled. In fact they don't even have to be restarted.

**sysprof** can be used to analyze saved profile data. *filename* parameter to **sysprof** can be used to load saved profile data. Alternatively Profiler-\>Open menu can be used to open a file.

**sysprof-cli** is command-line tool to collect profiling data to *filename.*

## OPTIONS

- **--version**

  Version. Display the version number.

- **sysprof**

  ## AUTHOR

was written by Soren Sandmann \<sandmann@redhat.com\>.

This manual page was written by Samuel Mimram \<smimram@debian.org\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).