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Parca + OpenTelemetry = Bright Future

The Parca project is embracing OpenTelemetry

August 13, 2024 | Frederic Branczyk

BPF

System-Wide

eBPF

Observability

Apache Arrow

Profiling

Continuous-Profiling

Comparing Profiles is even more helpful now!

We have shipped Relative Comparisons

August 6, 2024 | Matthias Loibl

Pprof

Profiling

Continuous-Profiling

Parca

Introducing Metrics Aggregation

Allows you to aggregate your profiling metrics across processes by grouping them by specific labels.

August 1, 2024 | Manoj Vivek

Metrics

Data Visualization

Caller / Callee View in Table panel

A new intuitive way to explore the control flow through specific functions in your application.

June 18, 2024 | Manoj Vivek

Data Visualization

Performance Analysis

Caller / Callee View

New and Improved Binary Filtering in Icicle Graphs

We've revamped our filtering by binary feature to be more intuitive and functional!

June 11, 2024 | Yomi Eluwande

Icicle Graphs

Continuous-Profiling

Binary

Interpreter

Python

(Mostly) Deterministic Simulation Testing in Go

How we used WASM and some Go runtime modifications to run deterministic simulation tests against FrostDB

May 28, 2024 | Alfonso Subiotto Marqués

Testing

FrostDB

Golang

Debugging

Databases

Deterministic Simulation Testing

Polar Signals at KubeCon EU 2024

Attending KubeCon EU 2024 in Paris, France.

March 18, 2024 | Matthias Loibl

KubeCon

Community

Correlating Tracing with Profiling using eBPF

How we connected the worlds of tracing and profiling using Parca Agent, the eBPF-based profiler.

March 5, 2024 | Frederic Branczyk

Profiling

Continuous-Profiling

Distributed Tracing

Tracing

Correlation