| name | rspack-tracing |
| description | Comprehensive guide and toolkit for diagnosing Rspack build issues. Quickly identify where crashes/errors occur, or perform detailed performance profiling to resolve bottlenecks. Use when the user encounters build failures, slow builds, or wants to optimize Rspack performance. |
Rspack Tracing & Performance Profiling
When to Use This Skill
Use this skill when you need to:
- Diagnose why an Rspack build is slow.
- Understand which plugins or loaders are taking the most time.
- Analyze a user-provided Rspack trace file.
- Guide a user to capture a performance profile.
Workflow
1. Capture a Trace
First, ask the user to run their build with tracing enabled.
RSPACK_PROFILE=TRACE RSPACK_TRACE_LAYER=logger RSPACK_TRACE_OUTPUT=./trace.json pnpm build
This will generate a trace file in a timestamped directory like .rspack-profile-{timestamp}-{pid}/trace.json.
See references/tracing-guide.md for more details on configuration.
2. Quick Diagnosis for Crashes/Errors
If the user wants to identify which stage a crash or error occurred in, use tail to quickly view the last events without running the full analysis:
cd .rspack-profile-*/
tail -n 20 trace.json
The last events will show the span names and targets where the build stopped, helping to quickly pinpoint the problematic stage, plugin, or loader.