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Parca

Continuous profiling with eBPF whole-system insight

Monitoring & Status ★ 4.9k stars Medium setup Apache-2.0

Parca is an open-source continuous profiling project that uses eBPF to profile entire systems without code changes. It records CPU and memory usage over time to help reduce infrastructure costs.

Key features

  • eBPF zero-instrumentation profiling
  • Whole-system CPU insight
  • Flame graph diffs
  • Kubernetes-native

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • No code changes needed
  • Low overhead

Trade-offs

  • Requires recent Linux kernel
  • Mostly CPU-focused

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