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Grafana Pyroscope

by Grafana Labs

Open-source continuous profiling platform that collects always-on CPU and memory flamegraphs from APAC production services and integrates with Grafana dashboards for correlated observability.

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AIMenta verdict
Recommended
5/5

"Continuous profiling — APAC SRE teams use Pyroscope to collect always-on CPU and memory flamegraphs from APAC production services, identifying which functions consume the most resources under real APAC production load without sampling overhead."

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Use cases
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Watch outs
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What it does

Key features

  • Always-on CPU and memory flamegraphs from APAC production services
  • eBPF profiler: kernel-level APAC profiling without application code changes
  • Grafana integration: correlate APAC profiles with metrics, traces, and logs
  • Multi-language: Go, Python, Java, Ruby, .NET, Rust, Node.js for APAC services
  • Low overhead: <2% CPU overhead for continuous APAC production profiling
  • Self-hosted open-source with Grafana Cloud managed option for APAC teams
When to reach for it

Best for

  • APAC SRE and performance engineering teams running the Grafana observability stack who want to add continuous profiling as the fourth observability pillar — correlating CPU flamegraphs with APAC trace spans and infrastructure metrics.
Don't get burned

Limitations to know

  • ! Profiling data volume grows with APAC service count — storage planning required
  • ! eBPF profiler requires Linux kernel 4.9+ — limits APAC Windows or legacy host support
  • ! Advanced APAC flame graph interpretation requires developer familiarity with call stacks
Context

About Grafana Pyroscope

Grafana Pyroscope is an open-source continuous profiling platform that collects CPU, memory allocation, goroutine, and mutex profiles from APAC production services — continuously and at low overhead — enabling APAC SRE and performance engineering teams to understand exactly which code paths are consuming the most resources under real production load. Unlike profilers that require manual activation, Pyroscope runs continuously in the background, capturing flamegraphs from every APAC service instance at all times.

The core use case for APAC teams is connecting performance signals: when Grafana dashboards show an APAC service consuming 85% CPU, Pyroscope reveals which function in the call stack is responsible — enabling targeted optimization rather than speculative tuning. Pyroscope integrates natively with Grafana (as Pyroscope is a Grafana Labs project), enabling APAC teams to correlate CPU profiles with trace spans and log events in a unified Grafana dashboard.

Pyroscope supports APAC applications in Go, Python, Java, Ruby, .NET, Rust, Node.js, and eBPF (for kernel-level profiling without application instrumentation). The eBPF profiler is particularly valuable for APAC teams who cannot modify application code (legacy systems, third-party APAC services) — it profiles all processes on a Kubernetes node automatically.

For APAC teams already running Grafana + Prometheus + Loki + Tempo (the LGTM stack), Pyroscope completes the fourth pillar — the observability stack becoming LGTMP (logs, metrics, traces, profiles).

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