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Cloud Profiler is a statistical, low-overhead profiling service that continuously collects CPU and memory usage data from your production applications. Unlike traditional profilers that add significant overhead and are typically only used in development, Cloud Profiler is designed to run in production with negligible impact on performance — typically less than 0.5% CPU overhead.
Development and staging environments rarely replicate production traffic patterns. Workloads that perform well under test may exhibit completely different behaviour under real user traffic — different data distributions, different concurrency levels, and different code paths. Production profiling reveals where your application actually spends its time and memory.
| Benefit | Description |
|---|---|
| Find real bottlenecks | Identify CPU and memory hotspots under actual production load |
| Reduce costs | Optimise code to reduce CPU usage and lower compute costs |
| Improve latency | Identify functions that contribute most to request latency |
| Detect regressions | Compare profiles across versions to spot performance regressions |
| No reproduction needed | Analyse performance issues without reproducing them locally |
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