Adding and removing events in the Live view

During data capture, add or remove events in the interactive counters panel in the Capture Control view.

Interactive counters panel and Live view

To select events and add them to the Live view, do one of the following actions:

To remove events from the Live view, do one of the following actions:

When you have finished configuring the Live view charts, you can update the view:

Changes to the counter configuration also occur when you:

Setting event-based sampling

If an event supports event-based sampling, Toggle event-based sampling toggle_ebs appears before the event name in the interactive counters panel.

To enable or disable event-based sampling for an event, click Toggle event-based sampling toggle_ebs. Set the reporting threshold in the Threshold field that appears at the bottom of the interactive counters panel when event-based sampling is enabled.

Other user indicators

  • A gray warning triangle next to the series title indicates event charts that have been configured but not committed.

  • A red triangle next to the series title indicates that there are no available counters for the chart.

  • Hovering over an event in the interactive counters panel highlights any series that is using it.

  • Hovering over a series or chart title highlights any events in the interactive counters panel that it is using.

  • Not all events are linked to the charts. Dynamic counters, like atrace, can only be configured using the counters panel, not using the charts. A double arrow in the category heading indicates linked categories.