ClickHouse/docs/en/operations/system-tables/stack_trace.md

system.stack_trace

Contains stack traces of all server threads. Allows developers to introspect the server state.

To analyze stack frames, use the addressToLine, addressToSymbol and demangle introspection functions.

Columns:

• thread_id (UInt64) — Thread identifier.
• query_id (String) — Query identifier that can be used to get details about a query that was running from the query_log system table.
• trace (Array(UInt64)) — A stack trace which represents a list of physical addresses where the called methods are stored.

Example

Enabling introspection functions:

SET allow_introspection_functions = 1;

Getting symbols from ClickHouse object files:

WITH arrayMap(x -> demangle(addressToSymbol(x)), trace) AS all SELECT thread_id, query_id, arrayStringConcat(all, '\n') AS res FROM system.stack_trace LIMIT 1 \G

Row 1:
──────
thread_id: 686
query_id:  1a11f70b-626d-47c1-b948-f9c7b206395d
res:       sigqueue
DB::StorageSystemStackTrace::fillData(std::__1::vector<COW<DB::IColumn>::mutable_ptr<DB::IColumn>, std::__1::allocator<COW<DB::IColumn>::mutable_ptr<DB::IColumn> > >&, DB::Context const&, DB::SelectQueryInfo const&) const
DB::IStorageSystemOneBlock<DB::StorageSystemStackTrace>::read(std::__1::vector<std::__1::basic_string<char, std::__1::char_traits<char>, std::__1::allocator<char> >, std::__1::allocator<std::__1::basic_string<char, std::__1::char_traits<char>, std::__1::allocator<char> > > > const&, DB::SelectQueryInfo const&, DB::Context const&, DB::QueryProcessingStage::Enum, unsigned long, unsigned int)
DB::InterpreterSelectQuery::executeFetchColumns(DB::QueryProcessingStage::Enum, DB::QueryPipeline&, std::__1::shared_ptr<DB::PrewhereInfo> const&, std::__1::vector<std::__1::basic_string<char, std::__1::char_traits<char>, std::__1::allocator<char> >, std::__1::allocator<std::__1::basic_string<char, std::__1::char_traits<char>, std::__1::allocator<char> > > > const&)
DB::InterpreterSelectQuery::executeImpl(DB::QueryPipeline&, std::__1::shared_ptr<DB::IBlockInputStream> const&, std::__1::optional<DB::Pipe>)
DB::InterpreterSelectQuery::execute()
DB::InterpreterSelectWithUnionQuery::execute()
DB::executeQueryImpl(char const*, char const*, DB::Context&, bool, DB::QueryProcessingStage::Enum, bool, DB::ReadBuffer*)
DB::executeQuery(std::__1::basic_string<char, std::__1::char_traits<char>, std::__1::allocator<char> > const&, DB::Context&, bool, DB::QueryProcessingStage::Enum, bool)
DB::TCPHandler::runImpl()
DB::TCPHandler::run()
Poco::Net::TCPServerConnection::start()
Poco::Net::TCPServerDispatcher::run()
Poco::PooledThread::run()
Poco::ThreadImpl::runnableEntry(void*)
start_thread
__clone

Getting filenames and line numbers in ClickHouse source code:

WITH arrayMap(x -> addressToLine(x), trace) AS all, arrayFilter(x -> x LIKE '%/dbms/%', all) AS dbms SELECT thread_id, query_id, arrayStringConcat(notEmpty(dbms) ? dbms : all, '\n') AS res FROM system.stack_trace LIMIT 1 \G

Row 1:
──────
thread_id: 686
query_id:  cad353e7-1c29-4b2e-949f-93e597ab7a54
res:       /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.27.so
/build/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/../src/Storages/System/StorageSystemStackTrace.cpp:182
/build/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/../contrib/libcxx/include/vector:656
/build/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/../src/Interpreters/InterpreterSelectQuery.cpp:1338
/build/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/../src/Interpreters/InterpreterSelectQuery.cpp:751
/build/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/../contrib/libcxx/include/optional:224
/build/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/../src/Interpreters/InterpreterSelectWithUnionQuery.cpp:192
/build/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/../src/Interpreters/executeQuery.cpp:384
/build/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/../src/Interpreters/executeQuery.cpp:643
/build/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/../src/Server/TCPHandler.cpp:251
/build/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/../src/Server/TCPHandler.cpp:1197
/build/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/../contrib/poco/Net/src/TCPServerConnection.cpp:57
/build/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/../contrib/libcxx/include/atomic:856
/build/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/../contrib/poco/Foundation/include/Poco/Mutex_POSIX.h:59
/build/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/../contrib/poco/Foundation/include/Poco/AutoPtr.h:223
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.27.so
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.27.so

See Also

• Introspection Functions — Which introspection functions are available and how to use them.
• system.trace_log — Contains stack traces collected by the sampling query profiler.
• arrayMap — Description and usage example of the arrayMap function.
• arrayFilter — Description and usage example of the arrayFilter function.

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