Welcome to the Polar Signals blog where we write about profiling, performance, and company culture.
What's new in Parca?
Looking at some exciting features that recently landed in Parca.
January 3, 2023 | Frederic Branczyk
Continuous-Profiling
BPF
eBPF
Observability
Parca
Parca Agent
Debuginfo
Autocomplete
Relabeling
Prometheus
Design Decisions of a Continuous Profiler
The tradeoffs and considerations building continuous, fleet-wide profilers.
December 14, 2022 | Frederic Branczyk, Javier Honduvilla Coto, Kemal Akkoyun, Monica Wojciechowski, Thor Hansen
Continuous-Profiling
BPF
eBPF
Observability
Parca
FrostDB
High Cardinality
Debuginfod
Parca Agent
DWARF-based Stack Walking Using eBPF
Deep dive into the new DWARF-based stack unwinder using eBPF.
November 29, 2022 | Javier Honduvilla Coto
Profiling
BPF
eBPF
Observability
Frame Pointers
DWARF
DWARF-Based Unwinding
.eh_frame
Parca Agent
Announcing Profiling Support Without Frame Pointers
Open-Source Parca Agent is adding support for native applications compiled without frame pointers.
November 23, 2022 | Javier Honduvilla Coto
Profiling
eBPF
Observability
Frame Pointers
DWARF
DWARF-Based Unwinding
.eh_frame
Parca Agent
Parca now also in Grafana Core
Parca in Grafana without having to install a plugin!
November 2, 2022 | Matthias Loibl, Frederic Branczyk
Grafana
Parca
Continuous-Profiling
Observability
Polar Signals at KubeCon NA 2022
Attending KubeCon NA 2022 in Detroit, USA.
October 24, 2022 | Matthias Loibl
KubeCon
Community
Parca Plugin for Grafana!
You asked for it, we delivered.
October 20, 2022 | Manoj Vivek, Matthias Loibl
Pprof
Parca
Grafana
Improved pprof.me! 🎉
Good news! pprof.me, our free profile sharing service, has got a shiny new look and feel. It's now easier than ever to share and visualize your profiles with the world.