Profiling Formats and Why You Should Care - Frederic Branczyk, Polar Signals
Channel: CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
Date: 20/04/2023

Profiling Formats and Why You Should Care - Frederic Branczyk, Polar Signals

While profiling has been around ever since we started tinkering with computers, only recently has Observability emerged as an ecosystem of focus. With the rise of continuous profiling as a fourth Observability signal, the portability of sending out these signals becomes an imminent question. An ideal profile data protocol must be resource-aware, accessible, support multi-tenancy, having high adaptability by profilers across different software domains. Currently, profiling tools may output their profile data in proprietary or obscure open formats that do not lend very well to sharing profile information. Despite a sizable number of tools collecting metrics traces and logs, the lack of uniformity has made a lot of profilers inaccessible for integration in everyday workflows. In this talk, Sumera will touch upon the evolution of profiling formats and shed light on the bottlenecks in standardising profile data formats. She will elaborate on the needs of end-users in the open-source observability community with an emphasis on how the correct profile data formats complement developer productivity in observability workflows