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Get started with Explore Profiles

Note

Explore Profiles is currently in public preview. Grafana Labs offers limited support, and breaking changes might occur prior to the feature being made generally available.

Profiles can help you identify errors in your apps and services. Using this information, you can optimize and streamline your apps.

Your investigation begins with the big picture and then drills down using profile types, labels, and flame graphs to explore your data. To learn more, refer to Concepts.

To learn more about Explore Profiles, read The new, queryless UI for Grafana Pyroscope: Introducing Explore Profiles.

Note

Expand your observability journey and learn about Explore Traces.

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, you need:

Explore your profile data

Most investigations follow four general steps:

Steps for exploring your profiling data

  1. Determine your use case.
  2. Choose a view.
  3. Investigate trends and spikes.
  4. Identify issues, as the result of your investigation.
Give it a try using Grafana Play
Give it a try using Grafana Play

With Grafana Play, you can explore and see how it works, learning from practical examples to accelerate your development. This feature can be seen on the Grafana Play site.

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