Grafana Cloud Application Observability is a cloud application monitoring product that uses OpenTelemetry and Prometheus data to help software…
Best Continuous Profiling Tools in 2026
Continuous profiling tools help you examine application behavior as it runs. Compare profiling types, language support, and source map support against the applications you work with. Continuous alerts and data retention can also matter when monitoring and investigating performance, while deployment options, free plans, and paid-from pricing offer further points of comparison. Guance Container Monitoring, Middleware,…
Coroot is an open-source observability platform that uses eBPF to collect metrics, logs, traces and profiling data without code changes.
Middleware is a full-stack observability platform for spotting and addressing issues across infrastructure, applications, and real-user activity.
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Alibaba Cloud ARMS RUM
AndroidiOSWebAPI7.5$0.02 usage-based - 5
Metoro Kubernetes Profiling
Metoro Kubernetes Profiling uses an eBPF sampler at the kernel level to profile Kubernetes workloads continuously and display interactive flame graphs.
Free planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted7.5From $20 a month - 6

OneUptime
OneUptime combines monitoring, observability, and incident response on one platform.
Free planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted7.0From $0.10 a month - 7
Grafana Alerting
Free planWebLinuxmacOSWindows6.8$0.03 usage-based - 8

Amazon CodeGuru Profiler
Amazon CodeGuru Profiler collects runtime performance data from live applications and provides recommendations for improving performance and locating CPU bottlenecks.
Free planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.7From $0.01 a month - 9
FusionReactor
FusionReactor is an application performance monitoring product from Intergral GmbH for finding why applications perform poorly or fail.
WebAPILinuxmacOS6.7From $22 a month - 10
Pyroscope
Pyroscope is a profiling tool for examining CPU, memory, and thread activity in applications.
Free planWebLinuxmacOSWindows6.7From $19 a month - 11
Coralogix APM
Coralogix APM is a cloud-hosted application performance monitoring service for microservices, serverless workloads and Kubernetes.
WebAPI6.6$0.16 usage-based - 12
IBM Instana Observability
Free planWebLinux6.6From $21.20 a month - 13

Parca
Parca is an open-source profiling system that continuously collects, stores, and makes CPU, memory, I/O, and other profiles available for querying over time.
Free planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.6Free plan - 14

Dash0
WebAPISelf-hosted6.5From $10 a month - 15

Pixie
Pixie is open-source Kubernetes observability and debugging software for developers.
Free planWebLinuxSelf-hosted6.5Free plan - 16

Blackfire.io
Blackfire.io is a cloud platform for monitoring, profiling, testing, alerting, recommendations, browser monitoring, and analytics for PHP and Python applications.
WebAPIExtensionLinux6.4From €33.25 a month - 17
Datadog Continuous Profiler
Free planWebLinuxmacOSWindows6.4From $19 a month - 18
Polar Signals Cloud
Polar Signals Cloud is a hosted service for collecting, storing, and analyzing continuous profiling data.
WebAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.4From $50 a month - 19
Sentry Continuous Profiling
Sentry Continuous Profiling helps teams locate backend performance bottlenecks down to functions and lines of code, with a focus on Node.js and Python.
AndroidiOSWebAPI6.4 - 20
Dynatrace Continuous CPU Profiling
Dynatrace Continuous CPU Profiling analyzes process CPU use down to the code level as part of Dynatrace Profiling & Optimization.
WebLinuxSelf-hostedWindows6.3From $58 a month - 21
New Relic APM
New Relic APM is a cloud application monitoring product accessed through the web.
Free planWeb6.3From $10 a month - 22
Zymtrace
Zymtrace profiles CPU and GPU workloads to locate performance bottlenecks in AI training and inference.
Free planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.2Free plan - 23
Google Cloud Profiler
Google Cloud Profiler is a free profiling service that helps teams examine resource use in production applications.
Free planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.0Free plan - 24
Elastic Universal Profiling
WebLinux5.7From $99 a month - 25
OpenTelemetry eBPF Profiler
OpenTelemetry eBPF Profiler is a Linux-only, self-hosted tool for whole-system profiling across native code and multiple language runtimes.
LinuxSelf-hosted5.4
