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title: "Adaptive Profiles | Grafana Cloud documentation"
description: "Learn about the key benefits and features of Adaptive Profiles"
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> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

# Adaptive Profiles

Continuously profile every service at a reduced sample rate, with full-resolution boosts on demand.

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## Overview

Adaptive Profiles lets you keep continuous profiling on for every service in your stack without paying for full-resolution data you don’t need. Each service runs at a 10% profiling sample rate by default. When you need more detail, Adaptive Profiles boosts a service to full resolution on demand, or automatically after a deployment, then returns to the default rate when the boost expires.

## Why use Adaptive Profiles?

With Adaptive Profiles, you can profile every service in your stack continuously instead of having to choose which to leave out. You keep cost predictable, and still get full-resolution data at the moments that matter most, such as after a deployment or during a performance investigation.

To learn more about the value of continuous profiling, refer to [Introduction to Cloud Profiles](/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-applications/profiles/introduction/).

## Explore

[Introduction  
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Learn more about the fundamentals and available features that help you optimize your use of Adaptive Profiles.](/docs/grafana-cloud/adaptive-telemetry/adaptive-profiles/introduction/)

[Boost services  
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Temporarily increase profiling sampling for a service to capture more detailed data during investigations or changes.](/docs/grafana-cloud/adaptive-telemetry/adaptive-profiles/boost-services/)

[Guides  
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Solve complex observability problems with end-to-end scenarios, practical examples, and best practices.](/docs/grafana-cloud/adaptive-telemetry/adaptive-profiles/guides/)

[Monitor  
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Track profiling data ingestion and the reduction Adaptive Profiles is delivering for your stack.](/docs/grafana-cloud/adaptive-telemetry/adaptive-profiles/monitor/)