Grafana's Pyroscope 2.0 Makes Continuous Profiling Practical at Scale

Grafana Labs has released Pyroscope 2.0, a ground-up rearchitecture of its open-source continuous profiling database. Key improvements include eliminating write-path replication (profiles now written once instead of three times), stateless query processing for elastic scaling, and data co-location that reduces symbol storage by up to 95%. Deployments that previously took 8–12 hours now complete in minutes. The new architecture also enables new capabilities: metrics derived from profiles, single-profile inspection, and heatmap queries. Pyroscope 2.0 adds native OTLP support, aligning with OpenTelemetry's adoption of profiling as a core telemetry signal. Grafana Cloud Profiles has been running the 2.0 architecture since April 2025 and has processed 19.5PB of data. Teams self-hosting must now use object storage as the single source of truth for distributed deployments.