yandex/perforator
Perforator is a cluster-wide continuous profiling tool designed for large data centers observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
78/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 72
- Longevity 41
Flags: no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 17
- age_days: 581
- days_rel: 190
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 8
Adoption not part of the score
3417 stars · 159 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Perforator is a cluster-wide continuous profiling tool by Yandex that collects CPU profiles from production servers using eBPF with negligible overhead. It provides scalable profile storage, flamegraph UI, and supports C, C++, Go, and Rust without recompilation.
Use cases
- continuously profile CPU usage across a large fleet of servers
- find performance bottlenecks in production services without frame pointers or debug symbols
- deploy cluster-wide profiling on a Kubernetes cluster
- generate sPGO profiles for profile-guided optimization builds
- profile a laptop locally as a replacement for Linux perf
- inspect CPU usage of C++, Go, or Rust applications via flamegraphs
When to choose
- you need low-overhead continuous profiling across many Linux machines
- you cannot rebuild applications with frame pointers or debug symbols
- you want PGO profile generation for native code
- you run Kubernetes and want Helm-based profiling deployment
When to avoid
- you need profiling on non-Linux platforms like macOS or Windows
- you primarily profile Java or Python, which are only experimentally supported
- you need memory or GPU profiling rather than CPU profiling
Facets
service · maturity active
monitoring tracing benchmarking developer-tools performance monitoring developer-tools microservices self-hosted cli continuous-profiling ebpf flamegraph profiling autofdo spgo performance-analysis devops linux kubernetes docker web-server
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/yandex/perforator · fetched 2026-08-28 · e8791e52451c
- homepage: https://perforator.tech · fetched 2026-08-29 · fa9ac5d63cd9
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| yandex/perforator | main | 78 |
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