OpenTelemetry Profiling
The emerging OpenTelemetry signal for profiles, aiming to standardize profile collection and correlation the way it did for traces.
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OpenTelemetry Profiling is the newest of OpenTelemetry’s telemetry signals, following metrics, traces, and logs. It defines a standard format (based on the pprof format) for continuous profiling data, along with a way to correlate profile samples with the trace spans that were active at the same time.
The goal mirrors what OpenTelemetry already did for tracing: let any profiler emit data in a common format, so it can be collected by the OpenTelemetry Collector and sent to any compatible backend, instead of every profiling vendor requiring its own agent.
Visit the OpenTelemetry documentation for the current specification status and supported backends.