1# Quickstart: Trace conversion 2 3_This quickstart demonstrates how Perfetto traces can be converted into other trace formats using the `traceconv` tool._ 4 5 6 7## Prerequisites 8 9- A host running Linux or MacOS 10- A Perfetto protobuf trace file 11 12The supported output formats are: 13 14- `text` - protobuf text format: a text based representation of protos 15- `json` - Chrome JSON format: the format used by chrome://tracing 16- `systrace`: the ftrace text format used by Android systrace 17- `profile` (heap profiler only): pprof-like format. This is only valid for 18 traces with [native heap profiler](/docs/data-sources/native-heap-profiler.md) 19 dumps. 20 21## Setup 22 23```bash 24curl -LO https://get.perfetto.dev/traceconv 25chmod +x traceconv 26./traceconv [text|json|systrace|profile] [input proto file] [output file] 27``` 28 29## Converting to systrace text format 30 31`./traceconv systrace [input proto file] [output systrace file]` 32 33## Converting to Chrome Tracing JSON format 34 35`./traceconv json [input proto file] [output json file]` 36 37## Opening in the legacy systrace UI 38 39If you just want to open a Perfetto trace with the legacy (Catapult) trace 40viewer, you can just navigate to [ui.perfetto.dev](https://ui.perfetto.dev), 41and use the the _"Open with legacy UI"_ link. This runs `traceconv` within 42the browser using WebAssembly and passes the converted trace seamlessly to 43chrome://tracing. 44
