grafana/pyroscope

Continuous Profiling Platform. Debug performance issues down to a single line of code

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  1. 🎉 Announcement: Pyroscope 2.0 is here!
  2. What is Grafana Pyroscope?
  3. How Does Pyroscope Work?
  4. Pyroscope Live Demo
  5. Quick Start: Run the Pyroscope server locally
  6. Docker
  7. Homebrew (macOS / Linux)
  8. Binary
  9. Quick Start: Visualize profiles with Grafana Profiles Drilldown
  10. Grafana Cloud / OSS
  11. Documentation
  12. Send data to the server

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Continuous Profiling Platform. Debug performance issues down to a single line of code

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Owner
grafana
Primary language
Go
Stars
11,714
Forks
830
Open issues + pull requests
428
License
AGPL-3.0
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main
Created
2020-12-31T05:47:19.000Z
Last push
2026-10-31T08:19:39.000Z

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Owner-supplied topics: continuous-profiling, developer-tools, devops, find-bottlenecks, golang, hacktoberfest, linux, monitoring, observability, performance, profiling, pyroscope, python, ruby

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