grafana/pyroscope
Continuous Profiling Platform. Debug performance issues down to a single line of code
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Inside the original README — Document outline
- 🎉 Announcement: Pyroscope 2.0 is here!
- What is Grafana Pyroscope?
- How Does Pyroscope Work?
- Pyroscope Live Demo
- Quick Start: Run the Pyroscope server locally
- Docker
- Homebrew (macOS / Linux)
- Binary
- Quick Start: Visualize profiles with Grafana Profiles Drilldown
- Grafana Cloud / OSS
- Documentation
- Send data to the server
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What this repository does
Continuous Profiling Platform. Debug performance issues down to a single line of code
Repository facts
- Owner
- grafana
- Primary language
- Go
- Stars
- 11,711
- Forks
- 832
- Open issues + pull requests
- 430
- License
- AGPL-3.0
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2020-12-31T05:47:19.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-11-01T09:18:39.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: continuous-profiling, developer-tools, devops, find-bottlenecks, golang, hacktoberfest, linux, monitoring, observability, performance, profiling, pyroscope, python, ruby
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