Perforator: omnivorous distributed profiler

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Perforator is an open-source, distributed profiler implemented for profiling applications across large Kubernetes clusters and standalone servers. The talk explains why the team built another distributed profiling system, details Perforator’s implementation and the approaches it uses for distributed profiling, and discusses practical usage on Kubernetes and on individual machines.

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1. 0:00Introduction to profilers
2. 3:39Standard profiler problems
3. 11:22BPF technology and advantages
4. 16:00Stack unwinding with BPF and DWARF
5. 20:11Profile storage and processing
6. 23:21Unusual use cases
7. 28:59Q&A

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