Get started with Pyroscope
Choose one of the following options to get started with Pyroscope:
The written tutorial below provides a series of imperative commands to start a single Pyroscope process, or monolith, which is designed for users getting started with the project.
You can also use
docker-compose
to declaratively deploy Pyroscope and Grafana.
For more information on the different ways to deploy Pyroscope, see Pyroscope deployment modes.
Before you begin
Verify that you have installed Docker.
Download and configure Pyroscope
Download Pyroscope.
You can use Docker or download a binary to install Pyroscope.
To install with Docker, run the following command:
docker pull grafana/pyroscope:latest
To use a local binary:
Download the appropriate release asset for your operating system and architecture and make it executable.
For example, for Linux with the AMD64 architecture:
# Download Pyroscope v1.0.0 and unpack it to the current folder curl -fL https://github.com/grafana/pyroscope/releases/download/v1.0.0/pyroscope_1.0.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz | tar xvz
Run Pyroscope.
In a terminal, run one of the following commands:
Using Docker:
docker network create pyroscope-demo docker run --rm --name pyroscope --network=pyroscope-demo -p 4040:4040 grafana/pyroscope:latest
Using a local binary:
./pyroscope
Verify that Pyroscope is ready. Pyroscope listens on port
4040
.curl localhost:4040/ready
Configure Pyroscope to scrape profiles.
By default, Pyroscope is configured to scrape itself. To collect more profiles, you must either instrument your application with an SDK or use Grafana Alloy.
To learn more about language integrations and the Pyroscope agent, refer to Pyroscope Agent.
Add a Pyroscope data source and query data
In a terminal, run a local Grafana server using Docker:
docker run --rm --name=grafana \ --network=pyroscope-demo \ -p 3000:3000 \ -e "GF_INSTALL_PLUGINS=grafana-pyroscope-app"\ -e "GF_AUTH_ANONYMOUS_ENABLED=true" \ -e "GF_AUTH_ANONYMOUS_ORG_ROLE=Admin" \ -e "GF_AUTH_DISABLE_LOGIN_FORM=true" \ grafana/grafana:main
In a browser, go to the Grafana server at http://localhost:3000/datasources.
Use the following settings to configure a Pyroscope data source to query the local Pyroscope server:
Field Value Name Pyroscope URL http://pyroscope:4040/ OR http://host.docker.internal:4040/ if using Docker
To learn more about adding data sources, refer to Add a data source.
When you have completed the tasks in this getting started guide, you can query profiles in Grafana Explore and create dashboard panels using the newly configured Pyroscope data source. For more information on working with dashboards with Grafana, refer to Panels and visualizations in the Grafana documentation.