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Documentation Grafana Pyroscope Reference: v2 Architecture

Pyroscope v2 architecture

Pyroscope v2 is a complete architectural redesign focused on improving scalability, performance, and cost-efficiency. The biggest change in v2 is how it handles storage: data is written directly to object storage, removing the need for local disks in ingesters.

The following topics include overviews of the Pyroscope v2 architecture.

• Design motivation
• About the architecture
• Components
• Block format
• Deployment modes
• Data distribution
• Compaction
• Metadata index