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

From grafana-pyroscope-2.0 2.0.3-r0 (os), captured 2026-11-05 by running profilecli --help (exit 0). permalink

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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 bucket list-v2-blocks [<flags>]
    List Pyroscope v2 segments and blocks in object-store buckets.

  admin bucket inspect-v2-blocks [<flags>] <path>...
    Inspect Pyroscope v2 segments and blocks in object-store buckets.

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

  admin v2-migration bucket-cleanup [<flags>]
    Clean up v1 artificats from data bucket.

  admin kube-proxy [<flags>]
    Start a reverse proxy unifying all the micro services in a single endpoint.

  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 top [<flags>]
    List top N label values by total value for a time window.

  query exemplars profile [<flags>]
    List profile exemplars for a time window.

  query exemplars span [<flags>]
    List span exemplars for a time window. Requires span-aware SDK instrumentation. V2 only.

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

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

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

  ready [<flags>]
    Check Pyroscope health.

  source-code coverage --profile=PROFILE [<flags>]
    Measure the coverage of .pyroscope.yaml source code mappings for translating function
    names/paths from a pprof profile to VCS source files.

  recording-rules list
    List recording rules. When accessing a Grafana Cloud datasource, requires a token with the
    "profiles-config:read" scope.

  recording-rules get [<flags>] <rule_id>
    Get a specific recording rule. When accessing a Grafana Cloud datasource, requires a token with
    the "profiles-config:read" scope.

  recording-rules create --file=FILE
    Create a recording rule. When accessing a Grafana Cloud datasource, requires a token with the
    "profiles-config:write" scope.

      Example:
      	# Create a rule that records the total CPU usage of the garbage collector function for every service in the "emea" region:
      	profilecli recording-rules create -f rule.yaml

      	# rule.yaml:
      	matchers:
      	  - '{ __profile_type__="process_cpu:cpu:nanoseconds:cpu:nanoseconds", region="emea"}'
      	metric_name: profiles_recorded_cpu_usage_function_total_gc_nanoseconds
      	group_by:
      	  - service_name
      	function_name: runtime.gcBgMarkWorker

  recording-rules delete <rule_id>
    Delete a recording rule. When accessing a Grafana Cloud datasource, requires a token with the
    "profiles-config:write" scope.

  debuginfo upload [<flags>] <path>
    Upload debuginfo.
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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