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adsr/phpspy

low-overhead sampling profiler for PHP 7+ observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/adsr/phpspy · C · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

60/100

  • Activity 83
  • Release rhythm 8
  • Longevity 100
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: n/a
  • age_days: 3070
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 104
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1500 stars · 70 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

phpspy is a low-overhead sampling profiler for PHP 7+ written in C. It can attach to running PHP processes (CLI, Apache, FPM) without code changes and generate stack traces for flamegraphs.

Use cases

  • profile a slow PHP script
  • attach a profiler to a running PHP-FPM process
  • generate flamegraphs for PHP applications
  • find performance bottlenecks in production PHP without code changes
  • monitor PHP memory usage and request info while profiling
  • top-like live view of PHP process stacks

When to choose

  • you need low-overhead production profiling of PHP on x86_64 Linux
  • you want to attach to already-running PHP processes without restarting or instrumenting them
  • you need flamegraph-compatible stack traces

When to avoid

  • you are not on Linux x86_64 (aarch64 support is experimental)
  • you use ZTS PHP builds
  • you need a GUI-based profiler or Windows/macOS support

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

monitoring benchmarking developer-tools performance developer-tools cli cpp php sampling-profiler flamegraphs process-attachment low-overhead command-line linux

1 source

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
adsr/phpspymain60

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