Continuous Profiling Is the Missing Link in Observability — Here's Why | Grafana Pyroscope

Pyroscope founder Ryan explains why continuous profiling matters and how it helped companies like Shopify and Uber cut costs and debug faster.

Chapters:
00:00 – Intro to Pyroscope
00:48 – Why Profiling Matters
01:45 – Profiling vs. Other Signals
03:37 – Rise of Continuous Profiling
04:23 – Profiling in OpenTelemetry
06:33 – Profiling’s ROI Value
07:59 – Proactive vs. Reactive Use
09:27 – Overhead + Sampling Explained
11:30 – Real-World Use Cases
12:37 – Shopify + Uber Results
14:22 – How Profiling Works
15:25 – Flame Graph Compression
16:19 – Querying Profile Data
17:25 – Demo: Drilldown Overview
18:17 – Profile Types + Labels
19:59 – Comparing Profiles by Region
20:52 – LLM + GitHub Integration
21:41 – Trace-Linked Profiling Demo

Links:
See the documentation for Profiles Drilldown: https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/g...

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