BCC - Tools for BPF-based Linux IO analysis, networking, monitoring, and more

Is iovisor/bcc beginner-friendly?

In the last 30 days, iovisor/bcc merged 0 of 17 pull requests from outside contributors. 6 beginner-friendly issues are open now.

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Forks
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Open beginner issues
6
Indexed issues
896
Dominant language
C
License
Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push
Oct 2, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 17, 2026
Contributing guide
No contributing guide
Code of conduct
No code of conduct
Beginner labels
help wanted good first issue
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

How to contribute to iovisor/bcc

  1. There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
  2. Your contributions will be published under the project's Apache-2.0 license.
  3. Pick one of the 6 open beginner-friendly issues below and comment that you want to work on it before you start.

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