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Continuous Profiling Platform. Debug performance issues down to a single line of code

From grafana-pyroscope-1.12 1.12.2-r31 (enterprise-packages), captured 2026-11-08 by running profilecli --help (exit 0). permalink

usage: profilecli [<flags>] <command> [<args> ...]

Tooling for Grafana Pyroscope, the continuous profiling aggregation system.

Flags:
  -h, --help     Show context-sensitive help (also try --help-long and --help-man).
      --version  Show application version.
  -v, --verbose  Enable verbose logging.

Commands:
  help [<command>...]
    Show help.

  admin blocks list [<flags>]
    List blocks.

  admin blocks compact [<flags>] <from> <dest>
    Compact blocks.

  admin blocks query series [<flags>]
    Request series labels on local/remote blocks.

  admin blocks query profile [<flags>]
    Request merged profile on local/remote block.

  admin parquet inspect <file>...
    Inspect a parquet file's structure.

  admin tsdb series <file>...
    dump series in an TSDB index file.

  admin bucket web [<flags>]
    Run the web tool for visualizing blocks in object-store buckets.

  admin raft info [<flags>]
    Print info about a Raft node.

  query profile [<flags>]
    Request merged profile.

  query go-pgo [<flags>]
    Request profile for Go PGO.

  query series [<flags>]
    Request series labels.

  query label-values-cardinality [<flags>]
    Request label values cardinality.

  query-tracer [<flags>]
    Analyze query traces.

  upload [<flags>] <path>...
    Upload profile(s).

  canary-exporter [<flags>]
    Run the canary exporter.

  ready [<flags>]
    Check Pyroscope health.
Options (3)
OptionDescriptionSource
-h, --helpShow context-sensitive help (also try --help-long and --help-man).help
--versionShow application version.help
-v, --verboseEnable verbose logging.help

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