dd-trace-php vs kcachegrind

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dd-trace-php		kcachegrind
	Project
6	Mentions	2
466	Stars	373
19.3%	Growth	3.2%
9.7	Activity	9.2
6 days ago	Latest Commit	4 days ago
PHP	Language	C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	-

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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

dd-trace-php

Posts with mentions or reviews of dd-trace-php. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-18.

Full Stack Observability: Connecting AWS with Datadog
1 project | dev.to | 6 Aug 2023

wget https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-php/releases/latest/download/datadog-setup.php TMPDIR=/ export TMPDIR php datadog-setup.php --php-bin=all --enable-appsec --enable-profiling
Datadog silently added auto opt-in telemetry
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jul 2023
Monitoring PHP Performance and Diagnosing Bottlenecks
1 project | /r/PHP | 17 Mar 2023
Best ways to monitor a Symfony Apps
1 project | /r/symfony | 1 Mar 2023
What are modern profiling tools?
5 projects | /r/PHP | 7 Oct 2022
PHP isn't that like really bad?
5 projects | /r/programming | 5 Jul 2021

We've used https://github.com/dataDog/dd-trace-php, and it is pretty sweet.

kcachegrind

Posts with mentions or reviews of kcachegrind. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-07.

What are modern profiling tools?
5 projects | /r/PHP | 7 Oct 2022
Stack size is invisible in C and the effects on “portability”
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Sep 2021

> Which reminds me: what is a good tool for analyzing / viewing a C++ programs call tree?
As already mentioned, perf can capture call stacks, but those are statistical samples, so not necessarily complete.
callgrind (https://www.valgrind.org/docs/manual/cl-manual.html) by contrast can capture all call-stacks.
kCacheGrind/qCacheGrind (https://kcachegrind.github.io/html/Home.html) can be used to view the output from either perf or callgrind. Sources for kcachegrind, including converters from perf, oprofile, etc., can be found at https://github.com/KDE/kcachegrind

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dd-trace-php and kcachegrind you can also consider the following projects:

jaeger-ui - Web UI for Jaeger

virgil - A fast and lightweight native programming language

webgrind - Xdebug Profiling Web Frontend in PHP

Stagemonitor - an open source solution to application performance monitoring for java server applications

forp-PHP-profiler - A PHP profiler written in C. forp is a lightweight PHP extension which provides the full call stack of your script, with CPU and memory usage, in a plain PHP Array or JSON output.

Laravel - Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We’ve already laid the foundation for your next big idea — freeing you to create without sweating the small things.

NelmioCorsBundle - Adds CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) headers support in your Symfony application

dataenum - Algebraic data types in Java.

php-spx - A simple & straight-to-the-point PHP profiling extension with its built-in web UI

signoz - SigNoz is an open-source observability platform native to OpenTelemetry with logs, traces and metrics in a single application. An open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic, etc. 🔥 🖥. 👉 Open source Application Performance Monitoring (APM) & Observability tool