Access or install Explore Profiles
Note
Explore Profiles is currently in public preview. Grafana Labs offers limited support, and breaking changes might occur prior to the feature being made generally available.
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.
Note
All Grafana Cloud instances come with the Explore Profiles plugin preinstalled.
Install in your Grafana instance
You can install Explore Profiles in your own Grafana instance using grafana-cli
:
grafana-cli plugins install grafana-pyroscope-app
Alternatively, follow these steps to install Explore Profiles in Grafana:
- In Grafana, go to Administration > Plugins and data > Plugins.
- Search for “Explore Profiles”.
- Select Explore Profiles.
- 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:
GF_INSTALL_PLUGINS=grafana-pyroscope-app