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Get started with Profiles Drilldown

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.

Note

Expand your observability journey and learn about Explore Traces.

Before you begin

To use Profiles Drilldown 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 Profiles Drilldown with Grafana open source, you need:

  • Grafana 11.5 or later
  • Your own Grafana instance
  • Grafana v12 and later includes all Grafana Drilldown apps by default. For Grafana 11.5 through 11.x, install the Profiles Drilldown plugin.
  • A configured Pyroscope data source

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 a 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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