tldr/pages/common/pprof.md

pprof

Visualize and analyze profiling data. More information: https://github.com/google/pprof.

• Generate a text report from a specific profiling file, on fibbo binary:

pprof -top {{./fibbo}} {{./fibbo-profile.pb.gz}}

• Generate a graph and open it on a web browser:

pprof -svg {{./fibbo}} {{./fibbo-profile.pb.gz}}

• Run pprof in interactive mode to be able to manually launch pprof on a file:

pprof {{./fibbo}} {{./fibbo-profile.pb.gz}}

• Run a web server that serves a web interface on top of pprof:

pprof -http={{localhost:8080}} {{./fibbo}} {{./fibbo-profile.pb.gz}}

• Fetch a profile from an HTTP server and generate a report:

pprof {{http://localhost:8080/debug/pprof}}