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Grafana Pyroscope
Docs: https://grafana.com/docs/pyroscope/latest/
Continuous profiling — flame graphs of CPU, memory, allocations, mutex contention, goroutines.
Prerequisites
- Pyroscope server (OSS) or Grafana Cloud Profiles endpoint
- For Cloud: numeric Pyroscope user (stack id) + API key
- For eBPF via Alloy: root + host PID + Linux ≥ 5.8 with BTF (or RHEL 4.18+)
Instrumentation paths
- Alloy eBPF (preferred) — auto-instrument, no code change
- SDK direct push — application calls Pyroscope API
- SDK → Alloy — SDK posts to
pyroscope.receive_http, Alloy forwards
Common Workflows
1. Instrument an app with the SDK (representative: Python)
pip install pyroscope-io==1.0.11import pyroscope, os
pyroscope.configure(
application_name="my.python.app",
server_address="http://pyroscope:4040",
sample_rate=100, oncpu=True,
tags={"region": os.getenv("REGION"), "env": "prod"},
)
# Dynamic tag for a hot path
with pyroscope.tag_wrapper({"controller": "slow_controller"}):
slow_code()# Verify the app is pushing — Pyroscope ingests samples in a few seconds
curl -s http://pyroscope:4040/ready # → "ready"
curl -s http://pyroscope:4040/api/v1/labels | jq '.data | index("service_name")' # → not null
# Verify the service shows up in Grafana → Explore → Profiles → service dropdown.Other SDKs (Java agent, Node, Ruby, .NET, Rust) + Cloud auth + tunable env vars: `references/sdks.md`.
2. Cluster-wide eBPF profiling with Alloy
# config.alloy — full block in references/ebpf-and-query.md
pyroscope.ebpf "local_pods" {
forward_to = [pyroscope.write.cloud.receiver]
targets = discovery.relabel.local_pods.output
sample_rate = 97
collect_interval = "15s"
}
pyroscope.write "cloud" {
endpoint {
url = "https://profiles-prod-xxx.grafana.net"
basic_auth { username = sys.env("PYROSCOPE_USER")
password = sys.env("GRAFANA_API_KEY") }
}
}# 1. Reload Alloy
curl -X POST http://localhost:12345/-/reload
# 2. Verify the eBPF component is healthy
curl -s http://localhost:12345/api/v0/web/components \
| jq '.[] | select(.id|contains("pyroscope.ebpf")) | {id,health:.health.state}'
# Expect: health.state == "healthy"
# 3. Verify profiles arriving in Pyroscope
# Grafana → Explore → Profiles datasource → query:
# {namespace="default", __profile_type__="process_cpu:cpu:nanoseconds:cpu:nanoseconds"}
# Expect flame graph to render with frames from the target pods.3. Query with ProfileQL
{service_name="myapp", env="prod",
__profile_type__="process_cpu:cpu:nanoseconds:cpu:nanoseconds"}Profile-type list + full ProfileQL grammar: `references/ebpf-and-query.md`.
Troubleshooting
- SDK starts but no flame graph → check the app actually called
start()/configure()(some SDKs are lazy); checkserver_addressreachable from inside the container - Alloy eBPF component
unhealthywith BPF errors → kernel < 5.8 or BTF missing;ls /sys/kernel/btf/vmlinux - Cloud push 401 → wrong
basic_auth_username(must be the numeric stack id, not the slug) - Profile shows up but with no frames → for Java, set
PYROSCOPE_FORMAT=jfr; for Python on Alpine, ensureprocfsandglibccompatibility
Resources
- Pyroscope docs
- Grafana Cloud Profiles
- `references/sdks.md` — Java/Node/Ruby/.NET/Rust install + config + env-var table + profile-type matrix
- `references/ebpf-and-query.md` — full Alloy eBPF pipeline + ProfileQL

