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Always-on CPU and memory profiles from production, so you can see which code paths cost the most.

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  • Amazon CodeGuru Profiler aws.amazon.com

    AWS profiling agent for JVM and Python apps on EC2, ECS, EKS and Lambda that finds the most expensive code paths and suggests fixes. Billed per sampling hour after a 90-day free tier.

    Paid ProfilingCloud
  • Blackfire blackfire.io

    Profiler and performance monitoring for PHP and Python: on-demand profiles, continuous profiling in production, and performance assertions that can run in CI.

    Paid ProfilingAPM
  • Coroot coroot.com

    Open source observability that uses eBPF to build service maps and collect metrics, logs, traces and profiles without code changes, with root-cause hints.

    Free plan Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted APMMetricsTracesKubernetes

    Source code

  • Elastic Observability elastic.co

    Logs, metrics, APM traces and synthetics built on Elasticsearch and Kibana, run yourself or on Elastic Cloud.

    Free plan Open source (AGPL-3.0-only OR SSPL-1.0 OR Elastic-2.0) Self-hosted LogsMetricsAPMTraces

    Source code

  • Google Cloud Profiler docs.cloud.google.com

    Google Cloud statistical profiler for Go, Java, Node.js and Python services that samples CPU and heap in production and shows flame graphs in the console. Google lists no charge for it.

    Free ProfilingCloud
  • gProfiler github.com

    Open source system-wide profiler from Intel (built by Granulate) that merges several language profilers into one flame graph per host; a local backend and UI are published separately.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted Profiling

    Source code

  • Grafana Pyroscope grafana.com

    Continuous profiling database that collects CPU, memory and other profiles from running applications so you can find hot code paths over time.

    Free plan Open source (AGPL-3.0) Self-hosted APM

    Source code

  • OpenTelemetry eBPF Profiler github.com

    Whole-system eBPF profiling agent donated to OpenTelemetry by Elastic. Profiles native, JVM, Python, Ruby, PHP, Node.js and Go code without instrumentation and exports via OTLP.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted ProfilingOpenTelemetry

    Source code

  • Parca parca.dev

    Open source continuous profiler: an eBPF agent samples CPU stacks from every process on a host with no code changes, and the server stores profiles for querying as flame graphs over time.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted ProfilingKubernetes

    Source code

  • Perforator perforator.tech

    Continuous profiler open sourced by Yandex for large fleets: deploys to Kubernetes, collects low-overhead eBPF profiles cluster-wide, and can feed profile-guided optimization builds.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted ProfilingKubernetes

    Source code

  • Pixie px.dev

    Kubernetes observability that uses eBPF to capture service traffic, metrics and CPU profiles automatically; a CNCF sandbox project.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted KubernetesAPMMetrics

    Source code

  • Polar Signals Cloud polarsignals.com

    Hosted continuous profiling from the team behind Parca: send eBPF or pprof profiles and compare CPU and memory usage across deployments, priced by samples ingested.

    Paid ProfilingKubernetes
  • zymtrace zymtrace.com

    Self-hosted, cluster-wide profiler for AI training and inference fleets: continuous whole-system CPU profiling plus GPU and accelerator profiling for CUDA, ROCm and other chips.

    Free plan Free: CPU profiling on up to 5 machines Self-hosted ProfilingKubernetes