Profiling concepts | Cloud Profiler | Google Cloud

Profiling is a form of dynamic code analysis. You capture characteristics of the application as it runs, and then you use this information to identify how to make your application faster and more efficient. Historically, profiling was performed only during application development. This approach relied on the ability to develop load tests and benchmarks that could accurately predict a production environment. Continuous profiling refers to profiling the application while it executes in a production environment. This approach alleviates the need to develop accurate predictive load tests and benchmarks for the production environment. Research on continuous profiling has shown it is accurate and cost effective*. Cloud Profiler is a continuous profiling tool that is designed for applications running on Google Cloud: It's a statistical, or sampling, profiler that has low overhead and is suitable for production environments. It supports common languages and collects multiple profile types. See

Profiling is a form of dynamic code analysis. You capture characteristics of the application as it runs, and then you use this information to identify how to make your application faster and more efficient. Historically, profiling was performed only during application development. This approach relied on the ability to develop load tests and benchmarks that could accurately predict a production environment. Continuous profiling refers to profiling the application while it executes in a production environment. This approach alleviates the need to develop accurate predictive load tests and bench