Google Cloud Profiler
Continuous CPU and heap profiling to understand application performance.
Overview
Cloud Profiler is a statistical, low-overhead profiler that continuously gathers CPU usage and memory-allocation information from your production applications. It attributes this information to your source code, helping you identify the parts of your application consuming the most resources and understand its performance characteristics in real-world scenarios.
✨ Key Features
- Continuous, low-overhead production profiling
- CPU time and heap memory profiling
- Interactive flame graph visualizations
- Historical data analysis to track performance over time
- Support for multiple languages (Java, Go, Python, Node.js)
🎯 Key Differentiators
- No additional cost
- Extremely low overhead, safe for production
- Continuous profiling across a fleet of servers
Unique Value: Provides a continuous and holistic view of resource consumption in production, allowing developers to find and fix performance issues that only appear under real-world load, at no extra cost.
🎯 Use Cases (4)
✅ Best For
- Analyzing a flame graph to discover a single function is responsible for 50% of the CPU time in a service.
- Comparing heap profiles from before and after a deployment to confirm a memory leak has been fixed.
💡 Check With Vendor
Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:
- Debugging application state or variables (use Cloud Debugger)
- Tracing requests across multiple services (use Cloud Trace)
🏆 Alternatives
While many profiling tools exist, Cloud Profiler is designed for continuous, fleet-wide use in production with negligible performance impact, a feature not always present in traditional or open-source profilers.
💻 Platforms
🔌 Integrations
🛟 Support Options
- ✓ Email Support
- ✓ Live Chat
- ✓ Phone Support
- ✓ Dedicated Support (Premium Support tier)
🔒 Compliance & Security
💰 Pricing
Free tier: Cloud Profiler is offered at no additional charge.
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