Plugins 〉Explore Profiles


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Explore Profiles

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Explore Profiles

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

Key features include:

  • Native integration with Pyroscope: Seamlessly integrates with Pyroscope backend to provide detailed performance profiling and analysis.
  • Query-Less Browsing: Navigate profiling data without the need for complex queries.
  • AI-Powered flame graph analysis: uses a large-language model (LLM) to assist with flame graph data interpretation so you can identify bottlenecks, and get to the bottom of performance issues faster.

Note: Explore Profiles is presently undergoing active development and is offered in a preview state. Subsequent updates are likely to incorporate significant changes that may impact existing functionality.

Exlore Profiles main screen

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 Pyroscope data source receiving profiling data

To use Explore Profiles with self-hosted Grafana open source or Grafana Enterprise, you need:

  • Your own Grafana instance running 11.0 or newer
  • Pyroscope 1.7 or newer
  • A configured Pyroscope data source receiving profiling data

Getting started

Refer to the Explore Profiles documentation. For instructions installing, refer to the access and installation instructions.

Resources

Contributing

We love accepting contributions! If your change is minor, please feel free submit a pull request If your change is larger, or adds a feature, please file an issue beforehand so that we can discuss the change. You're welcome to file an implementation pull request immediately as well, although we generally lean towards discussing the change and then reviewing the implementation separately.

For more information, refer to Contributing to Grafana Explore Profiles

Bugs

If your issue is a bug, please open one here.

Changes

We do not have a formal proposal process for changes or feature requests. If you have a change you would like to see in Explore Profiles, please file an issue with the necessary details.

Installing Explore Profiles on Grafana Cloud:

For more information, visit the docs on plugin installation.

0.1.12 (2024-10-04)

Bug Fixes

  • Code: do not show Optimize Code button when no code is available (#208) (6af234d)
  • Filters: ensure "is empty" filter is synced with URL (#205) (8fc8fc4)
  • QueryBuilder: Filters with regex values can be edited in place (#207) (75de5e2)

Features

  • Minor improvements (#211) (0486f33)
  • QueryBuilder: Enable "in"/"not in" operators (#122) (9574828)
  • StatsPanel: Add title on hover value + vertical border to separate compare actions (#212) (71a29e5)

0.1.11 (2024-09-30)

Features

  • Minor UI improvements (timeseries point size, plugin info tooltip) (#194) (621982a)
  • QuickFilter: Add results count (#193) (dc4012d)

0.1.10 (2024-09-25)

0.1.9 (2024-09-17)

Bug Fixes

  • DiffFlameGraph: Remove non-working pprof export (#169) (662cd48)
  • ExplainFlameGraph: Add tooltip when the LLM plugin is not installed (#163) (d395391)
  • Faro: Fix Faro SDK config (#174) (3ed6362)
  • Fix useUrlSearchParams (#171) (179b060)
  • LabelsDataSource: Limit the maximum number of concurrent requests to fetch label values (#165) (cb8149c)

Features

0.1.8 (2024-09-11)

Bug Fixes

  • Labels: Fix error with bar gauges viz and new Grafana version (#159) (b527961)

Features

  • Add histogram visualizations (#141) (2265be7)
  • create new browser history entry on some user actions (#128) (5439ab3)
  • DiffFlameGraph: Add flame graph range in timeseries legend (#140) (8729c31)
  • GitHubIntegration: Migrate GitHub integration to Scenes (#142) (0386bbc)
  • support submodules for GitHub Integration (#147) (52ecea8)

0.1.7 (2024-08-29)

Features

  • Add histogram visualizations (#141) (2265be7)
  • create new browser history entry on some user actions (#128) (5439ab3)
  • DiffFlameGraph: Add flame graph range in timeseries legend (#140) (8729c31)
  • GitHubIntegration: Migrate GitHub integration to Scenes (#142) (0386bbc)

0.1.6 (2024-08-27)

Bug Fixes

  • Ci: Fix docker compose commands (#111) (4ee541a)
  • DiffFlameGraph: Fix the "Explain Flame Graph" (AI) feature (#129) (a40c02b)
  • Favorites: Render "No results" when there are no favorites (#101) (426469d)
  • Labels: Fix "Discarded by user" error in the UI (#110) (2e9baab)
  • SceneLabelValuePanel: Fix border color when baseline/comparison is selected (#123) (5b4058a)
  • ScenesProfileExplorer: Make labels more responsive on smaller screens (10c97dc)

Features

  • CompareView: Implement new Comparison view with Scenes (#119) (127d6c3)
  • FlameGraph: Add missing export menu (#132) (f57b0ca)
  • Labels: Improve comparison flow (#117) (31d0632)
  • Timeseries: Add total resource consumption in legend (#108) (1fbb2df)

0.1.5 (2024-07-29)

Features

0.1.4 (2024-07-25)

Bug Fixes

  • Onboarding: Handle gracefully when there's no data source configured (#76) (4c18444)
  • PanelTitle: Remove series count when only 1 serie (#78) (8422e6d)
  • SceneByVariableRepeaterGrid: Prevent extra renders (#86) (bf14755)

Features

  • Avoid no data panels (#80) (72120b7)
  • LabelsExploration: Introduce bar gauge visualisations (#72) (7b1b19a)
  • SceneLabelValuesTimeseries: Colors and legends are preserved on expanded timeseries (#85) (6980299)
  • Various enhancements after first UX interview (#81) (2cdfcbe)

0.1.3 (2024-07-19)

Bug Fixes

  • Header: Switch the exploration type radio button group to a select on narrow screens (#70) (55f420a)

0.1.2 (2024-07-17)

Bug Fixes

  • CompareAction: Add missing data source query parameter to compare URL (#58) (b1213e1)
  • FunctionDetails: Get timeline state from Flame Graph component (#25) (64ed0e6)
  • GitHub Integration: Correctly extract the start/end timestamps from time picker (#15) (fe8d807)
  • SceneAllLabelValuesTableState: Fix color contrast in light mode (#26) (1bd268f)
  • SceneByVariableRepeaterGrid: Set timeseries min to 0 (#31) (0e3a17d)
  • SceneFlameGraph: Fix runtime error (#45) (6227f2d)
  • SceneFlameGraph: Respect maxNodes when set in the URL (#29) (85dd5b7)

Features

  • Analytics: Track Explore Profiles actions (#64) (ec58f57)
  • DataSource: Store selected data source in local storage (#60) (9f7ede1)
  • SingleView: Remove page (#20) (16da70d)
  • Update plugin metadata to auto enable (#65) (3afd1cd)
  • Various minor improvements (#46) (877b009)

0.1.0 (2024-07-15)

Explore Profiles is now available in its initial public release. It is designed to offer a seamless, query-less experience for browsing and analyzing profiling data.

Key features include:

  • Native integration with Pyroscope: Seamlessly integrates with Pyroscope backend to provide detailed performance profiling and analysis.
  • Query-Less Browsing: Navigate profiling data without the need for complex queries.
  • AI-Powered flame graph analysis: uses a large-language model (LLM) to assist with flame graph data interpretation so you can identify bottlenecks, and get to the bottom of performance issues faster.

Bug Fixes

  • GitHub Integration: Correctly extract the start/end timestamps from time picker (#15) (fe8d807)
  • SceneAllLabelValuesTableState: Fix color contrast in light mode (#26) (1bd268f)
  • SceneByVariableRepeaterGrid: Set timeseries min to 0 (#31) (0e3a17d)
  • SceneFlameGraph: Fix runtime error (#45) (6227f2d)
  • SceneFlameGraph: Respect maxNodes when set in the URL (#29) (85dd5b7)

Features