Get started with Explore Profiles
Note
Expand your observability journey and learn about Explore Traces.
Profiles can help you identify errors in your apps and services. Using this information, you can optimize and streamline your apps.
Your investigation begins with the big picture and then drills down using profile types, labels, and flame graphs to explore your data. To learn more, refer to Concepts.
To learn more about Explore Profiles, read The new, queryless UI for Grafana Pyroscope: Introducing Explore Profiles.
Before you begin
To use Explore Profiles with Grafana Cloud, you need:
- A Grafana Cloud account
- A Grafana stack in Grafana Cloud with a configured Hosted profiles or Pyroscope data source
To use Explore Profiles with Grafana open source, you need:
- Your own Grafana instance
- Install Explore Profiles plugin
Explore your profile data
Most investigations follow four general steps:
- Determine your use case.
- Choose a view.
- Investigate trends and spikes.
- Identify issues, as the result of your investigation.
Give it a try using Grafana Play
With Grafana Play, you can explore and see how it works, learning from practical examples to accelerate your development. This feature can be seen on the Grafana Play site.