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You should make it clearer in the magic trace Readme that the UI service fork used for viewing and analyzing the traces is also available should one want to deploy it locally or in a situation without Internet access:

https://github.com/janestreet/perfetto/

It is mentioned in the documentation but for anyone quickly skimming and expecting a SaaS pricing model underneath (I think many do now), that isn't obvious. From my initial scroll through this wasn't obvious and it was significantly less attractive. Looks very interesting!




They mention that in the privacy section:

https://github.com/janestreet/magic-trace#privacy-policy


I've recently stumbled on Google's Perfetto in the last few months. Very very nice UI. I've been using it with viztracer for Python.


This tool is a fork of Perfetto.


Right, yeah I definitely recognized it in the screenshots.


The magic of PR's :)


Are people generally cool with unsolicited PRs to "editorial" content? I'd have assumed that stating or not stating something in a README is mostly an intentional decision.


I doubt there's a universal answer to that question, but I think most projects tend to overlook important information because the participants have been too deep in the weeds for too long. You tend to forget what newcomers won't find obvious about your tool.




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