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Pyroscope

Pyroscope is an open source continuous profiling platform that enables you to identify and debug performance issues down to a single line of code. It provides deep insights into application behavior across code, infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines with minimal overhead.

Pyroscope is the open source alternative to:
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About Pyroscope

Pyroscope continuously profiles your applications, making it easier to detect CPU hotspots, inefficient memory usage, and other performance bottlenecks. It supports multiple programming languages and integrates seamlessly with tools like Grafana, Jaeger, and Prometheus. Its efficient storage engine and dedicated query engine (FlameQL) allow for rapid analysis, while Pyroscope Cloud on Grafana Cloud offers a managed experience to meet your scalability and security needs.

Key Features

  • Open source continuous profiling for deep performance insights
  • Low-overhead agents and highly efficient storage engine
  • Profile-specific query engine (FlameQL) for custom performance queries
  • Seamless integrations with Grafana, Jaeger, Prometheus, and more
  • Supports multiple languages and system-wide profiling

Pricing

Free Forever Plan
$0/Free

An actually useful free forever plan available on Grafana Cloud that offers robust observability features.

Features:
  • 10k metrics
  • 50GB logs
  • 50GB traces
  • 50GB profiles
  • 100k Synthetics Test Executions
  • 500VUh k6 testing
  • 50k Frontend sessions
  • 14-day retention
  • 3 active users
  • 2,232 Application Observability host hours

Summary

Pyroscope empowers developers with real‐time, continuous profiling that uncovers performance bottlenecks at the granular level. Its flexible integrations and free managed option on Grafana Cloud make it an invaluable asset for teams striving to optimize system performance and reduce cloud costs.

Adrian
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Adrian
Mar 9, 2025Updated1 min read
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