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Iteratively explore your flame graphs with the MCP sandwich tool

Don't bloat your LLM's context. Let it iteratively explore the parts of your flame graphs that actually matter.

Performance AnalysisPerformance+3
Author:Matthias Loibl
Matthias Loibl

Optimizing SLO Performance at Scale: How We Solved Pyrra’s Query Performance on Thanos

Learn how we optimized Pyrra’s SLO monitoring to handle high-cardinality metrics at scale, reducing cross-zone traffic and query times while maintaining 99% accuracy.

PerformanceObservability+3
Author:Matthias Loibl
Matthias Loibl

The MCP for performance engineering

Introducing Remote MCP Support in Polar Signals Cloud

Performance AnalysisPerformance+2
Author:Matthias Loibl
Matthias Loibl

Is Observability Data Sensitive?

Why profiling data is low-risk, high-value observability

ProfilingSecurity+1
Author:Kanika Sharma
Kanika Sharma

Parca + OpenTelemetry = Bright Future

The Parca project is embracing OpenTelemetry

BPFSystem-Wide+5
Author:Frederic Branczyk
Frederic Branczyk

The Cost of Go's Interfaces and How to Fix It

Why dynamic dispatch is necessary and how to fix it with devirtualizing and PGO.

GoGolang+5
Author:Frederic Branczyk
Frederic Branczyk

Profiling Arm64 with eBPF in Parca Agent

ARMing your favourite DWARF Unwinder

eBPFParca Agent+3
Author:Sumera Priyadarsini
Sumera Priyadarsini

Polar Signals Cloud is Generally Available

We're ready to share our product with the world!

GAGenerally Available+4
Author:Frederic Branczyk
Frederic Branczyk

Introduction to Parca - Part 2

Parca Agent is our open source, always-on eBPF-based continuous profiler. In this article, we will learn some of the concepts behind Parca Agent and use it to profile our system.

Continuous-ProfilingBPF+6
Author:Sumera Priyadarsini
Sumera Priyadarsini

What's new in Parca?

Looking at some exciting features that recently landed in Parca.

Continuous-ProfilingBPF+8
Author:Frederic Branczyk
Frederic Branczyk

Design Decisions of a Continuous Profiler

The tradeoffs and considerations building continuous, fleet-wide profilers.

Continuous-ProfilingBPF+7
Authors:
Frederic BranczykJavier Honduvilla CotoKemal AkkoyunMonica WojciechowskiThor Hansen
Frederic B, Javier H Coto, Kemal A, Monica W, Thor H.

DWARF-based Stack Walking Using eBPF

Deep dive into the new DWARF-based stack unwinder using eBPF.

ProfilingBPF+7
Author:Javier Honduvilla Coto
Javier Honduvilla Coto

Announcing Profiling Support Without Frame Pointers

Open-Source Parca Agent is adding support for native applications compiled without frame pointers.

ProfilingeBPF+6
Author:Javier Honduvilla Coto
Javier Honduvilla Coto

Parca now also in Grafana Core

Parca in Grafana without having to install a plugin!

GrafanaParca+2
Authors:
Matthias LoiblFrederic Branczyk
Matthias L, Frederic B.

Winter is coming - FrostDB in Prometheus

FrostDB is an embedded columnar database built for observability data. This article will explore FrostDB's potential by using it in Prometheus.

FrostDBPrometheus+1
Author:Thor Hansen
Thor Hansen

Introduction to Parca - Part 1

Parca is our open source, always-on eBPF-based continuous profiler. In this article, we'll learn some of the concepts behind Parca and use it to profile our system.

ParcaeBPF+3
Author:Sumera Priyadarsini
Sumera Priyadarsini

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