Pyroscope 2.0 makes continuous profiling practical at scale, reducing storage costs, simplifying operations, and helping you find performance bottlenecks faster.

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Pyroscope 2.0 is a ground-up rearchitecture of the open source continuous profiling database. Key changes include eliminating write-path replication (each profile written once to object storage instead of 3x), data co-location that reduces symbol storage by up to 95%, and a fully stateless read path enabling elastic query scaling. Rollouts that previously took 8-12 hours now complete in minutes. The new architecture also enables metrics derived from profiles, individual profile inspection, and heatmap queries. Pyroscope 2.0 has been running in Grafana Cloud since April 2025, processing 19.5PB of data. Native OTLP profiling support is included. Object storage is now required for distributed deployments.

Introducing Pyroscope 2.0: faster, more cost-effective continuous profiling at scale

Pyroscope 2.0: a closer look at what’s new

<p>Cutting write-path replication and going stateless on reads is a big win for cost and scaling. Faster rollouts plus profile-derived metrics should make continuous profiling much more practical in real systems.</p>
