pyroscope VS Grafana

What do you mean? pyroscope.io was slow for you? or the blog?

Tries (or prefix trees).

We use them a lot at Pyroscope for compressing strings that have common prefixes. They are also used in databases (e.g indexes in Mongo) or file formats (e.g debug symbols in macOS/iOS Mach-O format are compressed using tries).

We have an article with some animations that go into details about tries in case anyone's interested [0].

[0] https://github.com/pyroscope-io/pyroscope/blob/main/docs/sto...

You could use continuous profiling with Pyroscope which uses async-profiler under the hood, but with the added functionality that you can add relevant tags to your VMs (example).

Java Flight Recorder (JFR) is a format for collecting diagnostic and profiling data from Java applications. A while back someone created an issue for Pyroscope , an open source continuous profiler written in Go, to support ingesting profiles in JFR format, but there were no existing parsers that were also written in Go.

This cloud version is actually a slimmed-down version of Pyroscope which is open source and so you can run it locally.

At Pyroscope (open source continuous profiling) we use flamegraphs extensively to visualize and analyze profiling data. However, one of the worst parts about using flamegraphs for analysis is that they are kind of annoying to share.

Monitoring application logs is a crucial aspect of the software development and deployment lifecycle. In this post, we'll delve into the process of observing logs generated by Docker container applications operating within HashiCorp Nomad. With the aid of Grafana, Vector, and Loki, we'll explore effective strategies for log analysis and visualization, enhancing visibility and troubleshooting capabilities within your Nomad environment.

To help us visualize these scenarios, we'll build a Grafana Dashboard so we can follow along.

Visualization and Analysis: Choose a tool with intuitive and customizable dashboards, charts, and visualizations. A question to ask is, "Are the visualization features of this tool user-friendly and adaptable to our team's specific needs?" Tools like Grafana and Kibana provide powerful visualization capabilities.

Prometheus: Open-source monitoring system. Often used together with Grafana.

Grafana

Yes I'm aware that Grafana is open source but the method I used to find the API endpoints is far quicker than digging through hundreds of files in a codebase I'm not familiar with.

So, you will add one last container to allow us to visualize this data: Grafana, an open-source analytics and visualization platform that allows us to see traces and metrics simply. You can set Grafana to read data from both Tempo and Prometheus by setting them as datastores with the following grafana.datasource.yaml config file:

In example above, we use 2 additional parameters: code (HTTP response code) and page (page identifier), which provide detailed statistics. For example, you can build such graphs in Grafana: