Alternatives to Parca
Open-source continuous profiler that uses eBPF to track CPU and memory use down to the line. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Parca
Open-source continuous profiler that uses eBPF to track CPU and memory use down to the line.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Parca.
Grafana Pyroscope
Open-source continuous profiling database for finding CPU and memory hotspots in applications.
Grafana Pyroscope is a continuous profiling database with high availability and multi-tenancy, fitting into the Grafana stack and needing other Grafana tools for the full experience.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
bpftrace
A high-level tracing language and command-line tool for observing the Linux kernel and processes with eBPF.
Coroot
Investigate application behavior using automatically collected observability data.
Grafana
Dashboard and visualization front end for metrics, logs and traces.
SigNoz
Open-source full-stack observability platform built on OpenTelemetry and ClickHouse.
Tracee
A Linux runtime security and forensics tool that traces system events using eBPF.
