profile-exporter

With a given configuration profile-exporter queries a Parca compatible API, transforms the result into metrics and sends the metrics to a Prometheus remote write endpoint.

It produces the follow metrics:

1. profile_exporter_root_cumulative_value (labels: query, query_name): The total value as it would be the root in a flamegraph.
2. profile_exporter_cumulative_value (labels: query, query_name, function_name): The value of the function plus all the functions it called.
3. profile_exporter_flat_value (labels: query, query_name, function_name): The value that only the function used itself.

Configuration

profile-exporter is configured by a single configuration file passed via the --config-file flag (defaults to profile-exporter.yaml). See profile-exporter.yaml as an example.

remote_write:
  # The URL of the endpoint to send samples to.
  url: <string>

  # Timeout for requests to the remote write endpoint.
  [ remote_timeout: <duration | default = 30s> ]

  # All Prometheus HTTP client configuration options,
  # sigv4 and Azure AD authentication options are available.

parca:
  # gRPC endpoint without protocol
  address: <string>
  # bearer token to use for authentication, `bearerTokenFile` is recommended
  bearer_token: <string>
  # file to read bearer token from for authentication
  bearer_token_file: <string>
  # connect to Parca-compatible API via an insecure connection
  insecure: <bool>
  # ignore verification of TLS certificate used by Parca-compatible API
  insecure_skip_verify: <bool>

queries:
  # Name of query (will be a label in metrics).
- name: <string>
  # Query to run against Parca-compatible API.
  query: <string>
  # Duration to run query for, as in "last 5m".
  duration: <string>
  # Which functions to generate metrics for.
  matchers:
    # Function name contains the substring
  - contains: <string>

Demo

1. Run Prometheus with the --web.enable-remote-write-receiver flag.
2. Run Parca.
3. Run profile-exporter.

Configuration

Flags:

Usage: profile-exporter

Flags:
  -h, --help                Show context-sensitive help.
      --log-level="info"    Log level.
      --config-file="profile-exporter.yaml"
                            Path to the config file.