Perforator is a production-ready, Continuous Profiling app that can collect CPU profiles from your production without affecting its performance, inspired by Google-Wide Profiling.
Perforator is deployed on tens of thousands of servers in Yandex and already has helped many developers to fix performance issues in their services.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Efficient and high-quality collection of kernel + userspace stacks via eBPF.
- Scalable storage for storing profiles and binaries.
- Support of unwinding without frame pointers and debug symbols on host.
- Convenient query language and UI to inspect CPU usage of applications via flamegraphs.
- Support for C++, C, Go, and Rust, with experimental support for Java and Python.
- Generation of sPGO profiles for building applications with Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) via AutoFDO.
Website: github.com/yandex/perforator
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Developer: YANDEX LLC
License: Apache License 2.0
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