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title: "Profiles | Grafana Cloud documentation"
description: "Analyze CPU, memory, and other performance profiles for a service using the embedded Profiles view."
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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).

# Profiles

The Profiles tab embeds the Grafana Profiles (Pyroscope) view, pre-filtered to the selected service. It provides continuous profiling data to help identify performance bottlenecks at the code level.

## Pre-applied filters

The Profiles tab automatically filters by the service’s `namespace` label.

## Sub-tabs

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| Tab              | Description                                                                       |
|------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| All services     | Overview of profiling data across all services.                                   |
| Profile types    | Browse available profile types for the service.                                   |
| Labels           | Explore profiles grouped by label values.                                         |
| Flame graph      | View a flame graph visualization of the selected profile.                         |
| Diff flame graph | Compare flame graphs across two time periods to identify performance regressions. |
| Favorites        | Quick access to starred profiles.                                                 |

## Profile types

Common profile types include:

- **CPU time consumed**: identify which functions consume the most CPU.
- **Memory allocations**: find memory-intensive code paths.
- **Block duration**: identify contention points (Go).
- **Mutex duration**: find lock contention (Go).
- **Goroutines**: monitor goroutine counts (Go).

## Filters and grouping

- **Service**: select a specific service instance.
- **Profile type**: select the metric to profile.
- **Filter by label values**: narrow to specific instances or versions.
- **Group by labels**: break down profiles by label dimensions.
- **Insights** toggle: overlay knowledge graph insights on the profile data.

## View modes

Choose how to display profiling data: **Time series**, **Totals**, **Maxima**, **Histograms**, **Grid**, or **Rows**. Enable **Hide panels without data** to focus on services with active profiling.

## Flame graph and Exemplars

Click **Flame graph** to view the full flame graph for the selected profile and time range. Click **Exemplars** to correlate profile samples with specific trace exemplars.

## Next steps

- Use the **Diff flame graph** to compare before/after a deployment and identify performance regressions.
- If no profile data appears, check the [Quality report](/docs/grafana-cloud/observe-and-act/monitor-applications/application-observability-kg/service-detail/quality-report/) for instrumentation recommendations.
- For complete profiling documentation, refer to [Grafana Cloud Profiles](/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-applications/profiles/).