Parca
Continuous profiling with eBPF whole-system insight
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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