pyroscope

pyroscope is an Observability & incident response skill for AI agents, published by grafana in the skills repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates pyroscope C (70/100) and it passed the safety scan; the rating is based on static analysis only.

Continuously profile applications with Grafana Pyroscope and read the result as flame graphs. Covers three instrumentation paths — language SDK push (Go / Java / Python / Ruby / Node / .NET / Rust), Alloy eBPF auto-instrumentation (no code change, requires kernel 5.8+ with BTF), and SDK → Alloy receiver — plus ProfileQL queries, profile types (CPU / memory / allocations / goroutines / mutex), Grafana Cloud Profiles endpoint, and Span Profiles trace-to-profile linking. Use when adding profiling to a service, deploying Alloy as a cluster-wide eBPF profiler, hunting CPU / memory hotspots from a flame graph, comparing two profiles to find a regression, or correlating a slow Tempo trace to its profile — even when the user says "find what's burning CPU", "flame graph this app", "continuous profiling", "heap hotspots", or "why is allocation so high" without naming Pyroscope.

Grade
C
Quality
70 / 100
Safety
Passed
GitHub stars
192

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Our review

Architecture
87 / 100
Maturity
Packaged: licensed, with a version or references
Security scan
Low-risk patterns
License
Apache-2.0
Adoption
Adopted by 0 other repositories, in 0 collections

What the scanner flagged

  • mentions secrets in text

Not checked yet

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  • No blind task eval yet
  • Scope (portable / vendor / repo-internal) not assessed; only the top of each category is read for scope
  • Sibling files (scripts, references) not fetched; security scan covers SKILL.md only

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