Grafana Pyroscope
AGPL-3.0 continuous profiling platform
Observability / Observability · AGPL-3.0 · 11.7k
Reviewed 2026-10-18 · last push 2026-10-16 · repo checked 2026-10-19
What's Good
AGPL-3.0 (grafana/pyroscope), release v2.4.0 (2026-10-09). Pyroscope 2.0 made the v2 architecture the default, writing profiles straight to object storage with no in-memory ingesters or local disks, and v1 deployments can migrate without data loss. Profiles are explored as flame graphs in Grafana, linked to traces and metrics, with SDKs and an eBPF path via Grafana Alloy. ★~11.7k.
The Catch
AGPL-3.0, like the rest of Grafana's backends, so modified hosted versions must share source. Profiling has overhead and storage cost, so sample sensibly. You get the most out of it inside the Grafana stack; standalone it is less convenient.
Verdict
The open continuous profiler to run next to Grafana — cheap to operate since 2.0.
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