Why you should care about continuous profiling and how to get started with Profiles Drilldown in Grafana
Thursday, May 8
2:30 PM
30 mins
Main Stage
About this session
You already know about metrics, logs, and traces, the foundational signals for modern incident response and performance analysis. So why should you care about continuous profiling? In this session, Pyroscope co-founder Ryan Perry will demonstrate how profiling enriches observability by adding continuous, real-time insights into code execution, enabling these powerful use cases:
- Better insights in load testing: By integrating Grafana k6 testing with continuous profiling, you can analyze how your applications perform under load, revealing CPU bottlenecks and memory inefficiencies.
- Deeper trace analysis: Span profiles allow you to dive into specific traces and understand performance at the code execution level, delivering a new level of granularity.
- Pinpoint root cause analysis: Profiling identifies the precise lines of code responsible for CPU and memory issues, significantly reducing debugging time and improving resolution efficiency.
- Proactive system optimization: Profiling-derived metrics offer actionable insights into performance trends, allowing you to refine your metrics and alerts with code-level context.
Ryan will highlight real-world examples of how continuous profiling has transformed performance engineering at Grafana Labs and beyond, and show you how to get started with the query-less Profiles Drilldown app in Grafana.
