Alternatives to Grafana Pyroscope
Open-source continuous profiling database for finding CPU and memory hotspots in applications. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Grafana Pyroscope
Open-source continuous profiling database for finding CPU and memory hotspots in applications.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Grafana Pyroscope.
Parca
Open-source continuous profiler that uses eBPF to track CPU and memory use down to the line.
Parca is an open-source continuous profiler using eBPF for zero-instrumentation, line-level CPU and memory profiles, without depending on the Grafana stack.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Grafana
Dashboard and visualization front end for metrics, logs and traces.
Grafana Tempo
Store and query distributed traces with a dedicated tracing back end.
Grafana Loki
Collect and query application logs using label-based indexing.
Coroot
Investigate application behavior using automatically collected observability data.
SigNoz
Open-source full-stack observability platform built on OpenTelemetry and ClickHouse.
bpftrace
A high-level tracing language and command-line tool for observing the Linux kernel and processes with eBPF.
