Pyroscope data source for Grafana

Note: This core plugin was extracted from the grafana/grafana repository and is now developed and released from this repository.

Overview

Grafana Pyroscope is an open-source, horizontally scalable continuous profiling backend. The Pyroscope data source plugin lets Grafana query and visualize CPU, memory, goroutine, and other profiles stored in a Pyroscope server, so engineers can investigate performance regressions alongside metrics, logs, and traces.

This repository hosts the standalone Pyroscope plugin built from pkg/main.go and the frontend in src/, distributed through the Grafana plugin catalog. The legacy plugin id phlare is retained as an alias for backwards compatibility with existing dashboards and provisioning.

Requirements

• Grafana 12.3.0 or later (see dependencies.grafanaDependency in src/plugin.json).

Getting started

This plugin is bundled with Grafana — no installation is required for standard Grafana deployments.

1. Navigate to Connections > Data sources in Grafana.
2. Click Add data source and search for "Pyroscope".
3. Configure the connection settings and click Save & test.

For detailed setup instructions, see the Pyroscope data source documentation.

Custom Grafana distributions

If you are building a custom Grafana binary or distribution that excludes bundled plugins, you can install this plugin from the Grafana plugin catalog.

Documentation

Full documentation is available at:

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/datasources/pyroscope/

Issues

Please report bugs and feature requests at grafana/grafana-pyroscope-datasource/issues.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

This plugin is licensed under the AGPL-3.0.