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Understanding the Call Traces View

The Call Traces view provides you with several ways of viewing the same method data. It is a good starting point for investigating which methods allocated what instances. The Merged Traces Tree is a traditional program call tree that shows methods that are involved in the allocation. The Traces Graph is a traditional call graph. The table collects data for the methods in the tree or graph into a single entry.

The tree, graph, or table may group multiple nodes by category and display just the category name to help you focus on the methods that matter to you. You can drill down into these grouped items by selecting them in the table or tree and clicking the Replace Categories with More Detail toolbar button.

To investigate which objects were allocated by a selected package, class, or method, click the Instance Detail view toolbar button. For more information about using the Instance Detail view, see Exploring the Instance Detail View.

You can limit or expand the data in this view using these toolbar buttons

Action

Toolbar button

Result

Prune

 

Removes the selected node and its children from the dataset.

Isolate

 

Limits the dataset to the selected node and its children.

Replace Category with More Detail

 

Shows the stack frames contained in the selected node.