View and analyze profiling data

There are three main views to visualize and analyze profiling data in Grafana:

Explore Profiles app
Explore view
Dashboards view

In addition, you can use Flame graph AI to assist with interpreting flame graphs.

Explore Profiles app

Explore Profiles is a native Grafana application designed to integrate seamlessly with Pyroscope, the open source continuous profiling platform, providing a smooth, queryless experience for browsing and analyzing profiling data.

You can use Explore Profiles in Grafana Cloud or in your own Grafana instance. For more information, refer to Access or install Explore Profiles.

To access this view, navigate to Explore > Profiles in the sidebar menu.

Explore view

The Explore view lets you create targeted queries to your profiling data or view your profiling data alongside matching logs, metrics, traces, K6 test results, or any other data that can be queried in Explore.

To access this view, click Explore > Profiles in the sidebar menu.

Dashboard view

The Dashboards view gives you a real-time understanding of what your application is doing and is customizable to help you gain a comprehensive understanding of your application’s performance and identify areas for optimization.