Send profile data

To use Grafana Cloud Profiles, you must have a source of profile data, such as an application that has been instrumented to generate profiling data. This data can be used to Grafana Cloud using a Pyroscope data source.

Instrument your app for profiling data

You can add profiling with minimal overhead to your application using either:

Grafana Alloy: A component that runs alongside your application and periodically pulls the profiles from it. This mode is suitable when you want to collect profiles from existing applications without modifying their source code.
Pyroscope language SDKs: Push profiles from your application directly to the Grafana Cloud server.

For more information, refer to Configure the client in the Pyroscope documentation.