Pyroscope Continuous Profiling Platform Grafana

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name: "Pyroscope Continuous Profiling Platform by Grafana"
slug: "pyroscope-continuous-profiling-platform-grafana"
description: "Pyroscope is an open-source continuous profiling platform by Grafana Labs that helps identify CPU, memory, and I/O bottlenecks at the line-of-code level. It integrates natively with Grafana for flame graph visualization and supports profiling for Go, Java, Python, Ruby, Node.js, Rust, and .NET applications."
github_stars: 11341
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/grafana/pyroscope"
category: "Monitoring & Alerts"
framework: "Custom Agents"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "grafana/pyroscope"
  github_stars: 11341
---

# Pyroscope Continuous Profiling Platform by Grafana

Pyroscope is an open-source continuous profiling platform by Grafana Labs that helps identify CPU, memory, and I/O bottlenecks at the line-of-code level. It integrates natively with Grafana for flame graph visualization and supports profiling for Go, Java, Python, Ruby, Node.js, Rust, and .NET applications.

## Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- brew install pyroscope-io/brew/pyroscope
- brew services start pyroscope
- docker run -it -p 4040:4040 grafana/pyroscope

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- [![DockerHub](https://img.shields.io/docker/pulls/grafana/pyroscope.svg)](https://hub.docker.com/r/grafana/pyroscope)
- ### Docker
- <td align="center"><a href="https://grafana.com/docs/pyroscope/latest/configure-client/language-sdks/python/"><img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/23323466/178160553-c78b8c15-99b4-43f3-a2a0-252b6c4862b1...

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- Grafana Pyroscope is a continuous profiling platform designed to surface performance insights from your applications, helping you optimize resource usage such as CPU, memory, and I/O operations. With Pyroscope, you ca...
- ## **Quick Start: Run Pyroscope server locally**
- ## **Quick Start: Run Explore Profiles UI in Grafana**

- Source: https://github.com/grafana/pyroscope
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grafana/pyroscope/HEAD/README.md

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/pyroscope-continuous-profiling-platform-grafana/)