is it possible to run linux perf tool inside docker container

just do

apt-get install linux-tools-generic

and make a symbolic link to /usr/bin/perf. (in my case):

ln -s /usr/lib/linux-tools/3.13.0-141-generic/perf /usr/bin/perf

it worked for me!

linux docker containers perf moby

In debian buster-slim i used :

apt-get install linux-perf

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