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Access or install Explore Profiles

Explore Profiles is a native Grafana application designed to integrate seamlessly with Pyroscope, the open source continuous profiling platform, providing a smooth, queryless experience for browsing and analyzing profiling data.

You can use Explore Profiles in Grafana Cloud or in your own Grafana instance.

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 or Grafana Enterprise, you need:

• Your own Grafana instance
• A configured Pyroscope data source
• The Explore Profiles plugin

Install the Explore Profiles plugin

Explore Profiles is distributed as a Grafana Plugin. You can find it in the official Grafana Plugin Directory.

Install in your Grafana instance

You can install Explore Profiles in your own Grafana instance using grafana-cli:

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grafana-cli plugins install grafana-pyroscope-app

Alternatively, follow these steps to install Explore Profiles in Grafana:

1. In Grafana, go to Administration > Plugins and data > Plugins.
2. Search for “Explore Profiles”.
3. Select Explore Profiles.
4. Click Install

The plugin is automatically activated after installation.

Install using environment variables

If you want to install the app in a Docker container, you need to configure the following environment variable:

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GF_INSTALL_PLUGINS=grafana-pyroscope-app