Get started with Profiles Drilldown

Profiles can help you identify errors in your apps and services. Using this information, you can optimize and streamline your apps.

Your investigation begins with the big picture and then drills down using profile types, labels, and flame graphs to explore your data. To learn more, refer to Concepts.

Note
Expand your observability journey and learn about Traces Drilldown.

Before you begin

To use Profiles Drilldown with Grafana Cloud, you need:

A Grafana Cloud account
A Grafana stack in Grafana Cloud with a configured Hosted profiles or Pyroscope data source

To use Profiles Drilldown with Grafana open source, you need:

Grafana 13.1.0 or later
Your own Grafana instance
Grafana 13.1.0 and later includes all Grafana Drilldown apps by default.
A configured Pyroscope data source

Explore your profile data

Most investigations follow four general steps: