create topic: instrumentation

Author: camilosm

topics/instrumentation/index.md

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+---
+display_name: Instrumentation
+short_description: Instrumentation is the act of inserting instructions into software to analyze it without changing its overall behavior.
+topic: instrumentation
+wikipedia_url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumentation_(computer_programming)
+related: code-instrumentation, binary-instrumentation
+---
+In computer science, **instrumentation** is a technique that consists of inserting specific instructions into a program to monitor and/or analyze its performance, functionality, or behavior, but without changing how it behaves.
+It can be done statically, changing the program before executing it, or dynamically, inserting instructions while it's being executed.