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Symbolizing Postgres Profiling Data

February 8, 2023 | Frederic Branczyk
Postgres
Sql
Profiling
Continuous-Profiling
Debuginfo
Debuginfod
DWARF

Polar Signals at FOSDEM 2023

February 3, 2023 | Frederic Branczyk
FOSDEM
Community

Introduction to Parca - Part 2

January 19, 2023 | Sumera Priyadarsini
Continuous-Profiling
BPF
eBPF
Observability
Parca
Parca Agent
Debuginfo
Relabeling

What's new 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

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

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

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

November 2, 2022 | Matthias Loibl, Frederic Branczyk
Grafana
Parca
Continuous-Profiling
Observability