vtune cannot analysis npu under both root user and normal user

[Wenxin]

When running vtune -collect npu, it gets 'vtune: Error: This analysis type is not applicable to the current OS.'

However, it is listed in available analysis type:

vtune: Available analysis types:
performance-snapshot
hotspots
anomaly-detection
memory-consumption
uarch-exploration
memory-access
threading
hpc-performance
io
exp-offload
gpu-offload
gpu-hotspots
fpga-interaction
npu
system-overview
graphics-rendering
tsx-exploration
tsx-hotspots
sgx-hotspots
aps

Any solutions? Should I change the kernel version?

Hardware Information:

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 7 155H

Memory: 98G

Software Information:

OS: Linux 6.8.0-49-generic #49~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Nov 6 17:42:15 UTC 2 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

vtune information:

> vtune --version
Intel(R) VTune(TM) Profiler 2025.0.0 pre-release (build 629072) Command Line Tool
Copyright (C) 2009 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.

vpu firmware:

[drm] Firmware: intel/vpu/vpu_37xx_v0.0.bin, version: 20240611*MTL_CLIENT_SILICON-release*0003*ci_tag_ud202424_vpu_rc_20240611_0003*f3e8a8f2747

[yuzhang3_intel]

VTune doesn't support profiling NPU on Linux so far.

[Wenxin]

Is it possible to read NPU utilization from `socwatch` in openvino toolkit?

[yuzhang3_intel]

I am not sure if OpenVINO has an associated profiling tool to get device metrics. You can ask for help from the forum below.

https://blog.openvino.ai/