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sidebar_label: Tracing
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# Tracing class

The Tracing class exposes the tracing audit interface.

#### Signature:

```typescript
export declare class Tracing
```

## Remarks

You can use `tracing.start` and `tracing.stop` to create a trace file which can be opened in Chrome DevTools or [timeline viewer](https://chromedevtools.github.io/timeline-viewer/).

The constructor for this class is marked as internal. Third-party code should not call the constructor directly or create subclasses that extend the `Tracing` class.

## Example

```ts
await page.tracing.start({path: 'trace.json'});
await page.goto('https://www.google.com');
await page.tracing.stop();
```

## Methods

| Method                                         | Modifiers | Description                                               |
| ---------------------------------------------- | --------- | --------------------------------------------------------- |
| [start(options)](./puppeteer.tracing.start.md) |           | Starts a trace for the current page.                      |
| [stop()](./puppeteer.tracing.stop.md)          |           | Stops a trace started with the <code>start</code> method. |