Observability
Continuous profiling with eBPF: Parca, Pyroscope and the OpenTelemetry profiler
Continuously profile every process on a host with eBPF: principle, Parca and parca-agent, Pyroscope via Alloy, the OpenTelemetry eBPF profiler, symbols an…
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Continuous profiling with Grafana Pyroscope: why and how
The fourth signal of observability: what continuous profiling is, profile types (CPU, memory, locks), reading a flame graph and Pyroscope's place in the G…
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Grafana Pyroscope architecture and deployment
Pyroscope components (distributor, ingester, querier, store-gateway, compactor), object storage, monolithic and microservices modes, configuration and ret…
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Instrumenting applications for Pyroscope: SDKs, Alloy and eBPF
Send profiles to Pyroscope from Go, Java, Python and Node.js with the SDKs, collect pprof endpoints with Alloy and profile a whole host with eBPF, without…
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Linking traces and profiles: span profiles with Tempo and Pyroscope
Go from a slow trace to the exact CPU profile of that span: span profiles in Go and Java, configuring the Tempo data source (traces to profiles) and metri…
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Deploying and operating Pyroscope on Kubernetes
Install Pyroscope with Helm, collect cluster profiles with Alloy (annotations and eBPF), size, secure and monitor Pyroscope in production.
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Grafana Pyroscope best practices: collection, labels, analysis and costs
Production checklist for continuous profiling with Pyroscope: choosing the collection mode, labels, symbols, analysis, correlation and cost control.
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Grafana Alloy: Continuous Profiling with Pyroscope
Discover how to configure continuous profiling in your environments using Grafana Alloy and Pyroscope to identify bottlenecks in your applications.
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Alloy and the Grafana Labs ecosystem: which component for which tool?
The map of Alloy integrations with Faro, Beyla, k6, Loki, Mimir, Tempo, Pyroscope, Database Observability, Fleet Management and Kubernetes Monitoring.
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Profiles, OpenTelemetry's fourth signal: continuous profiling and correlation with traces
Understand OpenTelemetry's new profile signal: continuous profiling, flame graphs, data model and OTLP, the eBPF profiler donated by Elastic, support in t…
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Capstone project: the four signals of the OpenTelemetry Demo in the Grafana stack
A capstone project spanning the observability courses: deploy the OpenTelemetry Demo, send metrics, logs, traces and profiles to Prometheus, Loki, Tempo a…
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Analyzing profiles in Grafana: flame graphs, comparisons and diagnostics
A method for analyzing profiles in Grafana: Profiles Drilldown, flame graph and top table, comparing two periods (diff), memory and lock profiles, real di…
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