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Access Explore Profiles

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.

Before you begin

To use Explore Profiles with Grafana Cloud, you need:

• A Grafana Cloud account
• A Grafana stack in Grafana Cloud with a configured Hosted profiles or Pyroscope data source

To use Explore Profiles with Grafana open source or Grafana Enterprise, you need:

• Your own Grafana instance
• A configured Pyroscope data source

Install the Explore Profiles plugin

Explore Profiles is distributed as a Grafana Plugin. You can find it in the official Grafana Plugin Directory.