diff --git a/examples/system/app_trace_to_host/example_test.py b/examples/system/app_trace_to_host/example_test.py
index 4be49f3c09..de58da3b6c 100644
--- a/examples/system/app_trace_to_host/example_test.py
+++ b/examples/system/app_trace_to_host/example_test.py
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ def test_examples_app_trace_to_host(env, extra_data):
         dut.start_app()
         dut.expect_all('example: Enabling ADC1 on channel 6 / GPIO34.',
                        'example: Enabling CW generator on DAC channel 1',
-                       'example: Custom divider of RTC 8 MHz clock has been set.',
                        'example: Sampling ADC and sending data to the host...',
                        re.compile(r'example: Collected \d+ samples in 20 ms.'),
                        'example: Sampling ADC and sending data to the UART...',
@@ -24,10 +23,8 @@ def test_examples_app_trace_to_host(env, extra_data):
                        re.compile(r'example: Collected \d+ samples in 20 ms.'),
                        timeout=20)
 
-        response = ocd.cmd_exec('esp apptrace start file://adc.log 0 9000 5 0 0')
-        with open(os.path.join(proj_path, 'telnet.log'), 'w') as f:
-            f.write(response)
-        assert('Data: blocks incomplete 0, lost bytes: 0' in response)
+        ocd.apptrace_start("file://adc.log 0 9000 5 0 0")
+        ocd.apptrace_wait_stop(tmo=30)
 
     with ttfw_idf.CustomProcess(' '.join([os.path.join(idf_path, 'tools/esp_app_trace/logtrace_proc.py'),
                                           'adc.log',
diff --git a/tools/ci/python_packages/ttfw_idf/DebugUtils.py b/tools/ci/python_packages/ttfw_idf/DebugUtils.py
index a83ba88581..16fdf481bf 100644
--- a/tools/ci/python_packages/ttfw_idf/DebugUtils.py
+++ b/tools/ci/python_packages/ttfw_idf/DebugUtils.py
@@ -82,6 +82,15 @@ class OCDBackend(object):
     def cmd_exec(self, cmd):
         return self.oocd.cmd_exec(cmd)
 
+    def apptrace_start(self, trace_args):
+        self.oocd.apptrace_start(trace_args)
+
+    def apptrace_stop(self):
+        self.oocd.apptrace_stop()
+
+    def apptrace_wait_stop(self, tmo=10):
+        self.oocd.apptrace_wait_stop(tmo=tmo)
+
 
 class GDBBackend(object):
     def __init__(self, logfile_path, elffile_path, target, gdbinit_path=None, working_dir=None):