google/orbit

Health v2 · maintenance only

Flags: prerelease_only archived

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4316 stars · 360 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Orbit is a standalone native application profiler for Windows and Linux that combines callstack sampling with dynamic instrumentation to identify performance bottlenecks in C, C++, Rust, or Go applications. It requires no code changes, recompilation, or relaunch of the target process, and visualizes thread scheduling, dependencies, memory, and GPU job timings.

Use cases

• profile a C++ application without recompiling it
• find performance bottlenecks in a native application
• visualize thread scheduling and dependencies
• dynamically instrument functions in a shipping build
• trace GPU job timings on AMD GPUs
• profile Wine/Proton games with mixed callstacks
• do remote profiling of a Linux target

When to choose

• you need zero-integration profiling of native C/C++/Rust/Go apps on Linux or Windows
• you want to combine sampling with exact function entry/exit instrumentation
• you need thread scheduling, memory, or AMD GPU tracepoint visualization
• you cannot modify or rebuild the target application

When to avoid

• you need actively maintained Windows local profiling - focus has shifted to Linux and Windows support is partial
• you need GPU profiling on non-AMD GPUs
• you want a lightweight command-line-only profiler
• you need a project with active Google engineering support - it is no longer maintained by Google engineers

Facets

application · maturity maintenance

monitoring tracing benchmarking developer-tools developer-tools performance desktop-applications windows cpp cross-platform profiler dynamic-instrumentation sampling cpu-profiling gpu-profiling callstack visualizer game-development linux

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