- Stars
- 14,638
- License
- MIT
- Last commit
- 11 days ago
Best Continuous Profiling Tools
Explore leading tools in the Continuous Profiling category, including open-source options and SaaS products. Compare features, use cases, and find the best fit for your workflow.
10+ open-source projects · 6 SaaS products
Top open-source Continuous Profiling
These projects are active, self-hostable choices for knowledge management teams evaluating alternatives to SaaS tools.

Tracy Profiler
Nanosecond-resolution, real-time telemetry profiler for games and apps
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- 14,560
- License
- Unknown
- Last commit
- 5 days ago
- Stars
- 13,131
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Last commit
- 21 days ago

System Informer
Powerful Windows tool for monitoring, debugging, and malware detection
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- 13,115
- License
- MIT
- Last commit
- 3 days ago
- Stars
- 11,049
- License
- AGPL-3.0
- Last commit
- 3 days ago
- Stars
- 7,412
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Last commit
- 25 days ago
Grafana Pyroscope delivers continuous profiling across languages, offering proactive resource optimization and reactive debugging with a queryless Explore Profiles UI, easy Docker or Homebrew deployment.
Popular SaaS Platforms to Replace
Understand the commercial incumbents teams migrate from and how many open-source alternatives exist for each product.
Blackfire Continuous Profiler
Low-overhead continuous profiling for app performance optimization.
Datadog Continuous Profiler
Always-on code profiling to cut latency and cloud costs.
Elastic Universal Profiling
Whole-system, always-on profiling with no instrumentation.
Grafana Cloud Profiles
Managed continuous profiling powered by Pyroscope.
Parca
Continuous profiling tool for application performance optimization
Sentry Profiling
Continuous code-level profiling for backend and mobile apps.
Blackfire continuously captures profiles to highlight resource-intensive code paths, enabling teams to pinpoint and fix bottlenecks in production.
Frequently replaced when teams want private deployments and lower TCO.
Explore related categories
Browse neighbouring categories in Observability to widen your evaluation.
- Application Performance Monitoring (APM)Application performance monitoring and profiling tools for in-depth analytics.
- Distributed TracingTools to trace requests across microservices for performance and debugging.
- Error TrackingPlatforms for capturing and tracking application errors and exceptions (crash reports).
- Incident Management & On-CallOn-call scheduling, paging and incident response orchestration with runbooks and postmortems.
- Infrastructure MonitoringServer and network monitoring tools for uptime, health checks, and alerts.
- Log ManagementCentralized log collection, storage, and search across servers and applications.



