perfscope 1.0.6
The Ultimate Python Performance Profiler & APM Tool - Production-Ready Performance Monitoring, Memory Tracking, Call Tree Analysis & Bottleneck Detection for Django, Flask, FastAPI, Async Applications, Data Science & Machine Learning
License: MIT License
Requires Python: >=3.8
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# PerfScope

> **The Ultimate Python Performance Profiler** - Production-Ready Performance Monitoring, Memory Tracking & Call Tree Analysis

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**PerfScope** is the most advanced **Python performance profiler** and **application performance monitoring (APM)** tool. Get **real-time insights** into function execution time, memory consumption, call hierarchies, and bottleneck detection with **zero configuration**. Perfect for **Django**, **Flask**, **FastAPI**, **async applications**, **data science**, and **machine learning** performance optimization.

## Why Choose PerfScope?

- **Production-Ready Logging** - Clean, structured logs for enterprise environments
- **Advanced Performance Analytics** - CPU time, wall time, memory usage, call frequency analysis
- **Async/Await Support** - Full compatibility with modern Python async frameworks
- **Interactive Call Trees** - Visual representation of function call hierarchies
- **Memory Leak Detection** - Track memory allocations and identify memory leaks
- **Export Reports** - HTML, JSON, CSV formats for integration with monitoring systems
- **Minimal Overhead** - Optimized for production use with configurable tracing levels
- **Smart Filtering** - Focus on bottlenecks with intelligent threshold-based logging
- **Zero Dependencies** - Pure Python core with optional extensions for enhanced features

## Key Features & Benefits

### Performance Monitoring
- **Function Call Tracing** - Automatic detection of all nested function calls with depth control
- **Execution Time Analysis** - Precise wall-clock and CPU time measurements down to microseconds
- **Memory Usage Tracking** - Real-time memory allocation monitoring and peak usage detection
- **Call Frequency Analysis** - Identify hot paths and frequently called functions
- **Bottleneck Detection** - Automatic identification of performance bottlenecks with configurable thresholds

### Developer Experience
- **Single Decorator Setup** - Add `@profile()` to any function for instant profiling
- **Production-Ready Logs** - Clean, structured logging format with [PerfScope] identifiers
- **Zero Configuration** - Works out-of-the-box with sensible defaults
- **IDE Integration** - Type hints and IntelliSense support for all APIs
- **Framework Compatibility** - Works with Django, Flask, FastAPI, Celery, and all Python frameworks

### Advanced Analytics
- **Call Tree Visualization** - Complete execution hierarchy with parent-child relationships
- **Memory Leak Detection** - Track memory allocations and garbage collection patterns
- **Async/Concurrent Profiling** - Full support for asyncio, threading, and multiprocessing
- **Report Generation** - Export detailed reports in HTML, JSON, and CSV formats
- **Statistical Analysis** - Min/max/average execution times, call distributions, and trends

### Enterprise Ready
- **Configurable Logging Levels** - From debug tracing to production summaries
- **Module Filtering** - Include/exclude specific modules or packages
- **Depth Control** - Limit tracing depth for performance optimization
- **Threshold-Based Reporting** - Only log functions exceeding specified execution times
- **Thread Safety** - Full support for multi-threaded applications

## Installation

### Quick Install
```bash
# Standard installation - pure Python, zero dependencies
pip install perfscope

# Full installation with enhanced memory tracking
pip install perfscope[full]

# Development installation with all tools
pip install perfscope[dev]
```

### Requirements
- **Python 3.8+** (Python 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12 supported)
- **Zero dependencies** for core functionality
- **Optional**: psutil for enhanced system memory tracking

## Quick Start Guide

### 30-Second Setup

Transform any function into a performance monitoring powerhouse with a single decorator:

```python
from perfscope import profile

# Basic profiling - just add the decorator!
@profile()
def calculate_fibonacci(n):
    """Example function with recursive calls for performance testing"""
    if n <= 1:
        return n
    return calculate_fibonacci(n-1) + calculate_fibonacci(n-2)

# Run your function normally
result = calculate_fibonacci(10)

# PerfScope automatically logs:
# 2024-01-15 10:30:45.123 | INFO | [PerfScope] PROFILED[calculate_fibonacci] time=5.23ms cpu=5.20ms efficiency=99.4% nested=177
# 2024-01-15 10:30:45.125 | INFO | [PerfScope] SESSION SUMMARY duration=0.005s cpu=0.005s efficiency=99.4% calls=177 functions=1
```

### Export Detailed Reports

```python
# Generate comprehensive HTML report
@profile(report_path="performance_analysis.html")
def process_large_dataset(data):
    """Process large datasets with memory tracking"""
    cleaned_data = clean_data(data)           # Tracked
    features = extract_features(cleaned_data) # Tracked
    model_result = train_model(features)      # Tracked
    return model_result

# Creates detailed HTML report with:
# - Interactive call tree visualization
# - Memory usage graphs
# - Performance bottleneck analysis
# - Function timing distributions
```

### Async/Await & Concurrent Code

```python
import asyncio
from perfscope import profile

# Profile async functions with memory tracking
@profile(trace_memory=True, detailed_tracing=True)
async def fetch_multiple_apis(urls):
    """Fetch data from multiple APIs concurrently"""
    async with aiohttp.ClientSession() as session:
        tasks = [fetch_single_url(session, url) for url in urls]
        results = await asyncio.gather(*tasks, return_exceptions=True)
    return results

# Automatically tracks:
# - Async function execution times
# - Memory allocations during concurrent operations
# - Call tree of async tasks
# - Exception handling performance
```

## Real-World Examples

### Enterprise Web Application

Profile a complete web request lifecycle in production:

```python
from perfscope import profile
from fastapi import FastAPI, Request
import asyncio

app = FastAPI()

@profile(
    trace_memory=True,              # Track memory allocations
    max_depth=50,                   # Deep call tree analysis
    min_duration=0.001,             # Only log functions > 1ms
    report_path="api_performance.html",  # Detailed HTML report
    exclude_modules={"logging", "urllib3"}  # Filter out noise
)
@app.post("/api/process-order")
async def process_order_endpoint(request: OrderRequest):
    """Complete order processing with performance monitoring"""

    # Input validation (tracked)
    validation_result = await validate_order_request(request)
    if not validation_result.is_valid:
        return error_response(validation_result.errors)

    # Parallel data fetching (tracked)
    customer_data, inventory_data, pricing_data = await asyncio.gather(
        fetch_customer_profile(request.customer_id),     # Database query
        check_inventory_availability(request.items),     # Redis cache + DB
        calculate_dynamic_pricing(request.items)         # External API
    )

    # Business logic processing (tracked)
    order_calculation = await process_order_logic(
        customer_data, inventory_data, pricing_data
    )

    # Payment processing (tracked)
    payment_result = await process_payment(
        order_calculation.total_amount,
        customer_data.payment_method
    )

    # Database transaction (tracked)
    final_order = await save_order_transaction(
        order_calculation, payment_result
    )

    return success_response(final_order)

# Production logs show:
# [PerfScope] PROFILED[process_order_endpoint] time=245.67ms cpu=89.23ms efficiency=36.3% mem=+2.4MB nested=23
# [PerfScope] BOTTLENECK[fetch_customer_profile] 34.2% runtime (84.1ms)
# [PerfScope] SESSION SUMMARY duration=0.246s cpu=0.089s efficiency=36.3% calls=47 functions=18
```

### Machine Learning Pipeline

```python
@profile(
    trace_memory=True,
    report_path="ml_pipeline_performance.html",
    detailed_tracing=False  # Production-clean logs only
)
def train_recommendation_model(user_data, item_features):
    """Complete ML pipeline with performance tracking"""

    # Data preprocessing (memory intensive)
    processed_features = preprocess_features(user_data, item_features)

    # Feature engineering (CPU intensive)
    engineered_features = create_interaction_features(processed_features)

    # Model training (GPU/CPU intensive)
    model = train_collaborative_filtering_model(engineered_features)

    # Model validation (I/O intensive)
    validation_metrics = validate_model_performance(model, test_data)

    # Model persistence (I/O intensive)
    save_trained_model(model, "recommendation_model_v2.pkl")

    return ModelTrainingResult(model, validation_metrics)

# Identifies bottlenecks in your ML pipeline:
# - Which preprocessing steps are slowest
# - Memory usage during feature engineering
# - Training time breakdown by algorithm phase
# - I/O performance for model persistence
```

### Django Web Application

```python
# views.py
from django.http import JsonResponse
from perfscope import profile

@profile(trace_memory=True)
def api_user_dashboard(request):
    """Django view with comprehensive profiling"""
    user = request.user

    # Database queries (tracked)
    user_profile = UserProfile.objects.select_related('company').get(user=user)
    recent_orders = Order.objects.filter(user=user)[:10]
    analytics_data = generate_user_analytics(user.id)

    # Template rendering (tracked)
    context = {
        'user': user_profile,
        'orders': recent_orders,
        'analytics': analytics_data
    }

    return JsonResponse(context)

# Automatically tracks:
# - Django ORM query performance
# - Template rendering times
# - Memory usage per request
# - Database connection overhead
```

## Understanding Performance Reports

PerfScope generates comprehensive reports with multiple visualization formats:

### Interactive Call Tree (HTML Report)
```
process_order_endpoint (245.67ms, self: 12.4ms)                    [Memory: +2.4MB]
├─ validate_order_request (8.3ms, self: 8.3ms)                     [Memory: +0.1MB]
├─ fetch_customer_profile (84.1ms, self: 3.2ms)                    [Memory: +0.8MB] ⚠️ BOTTLENECK
│  ├─ database_connection_get (15.6ms, self: 15.6ms)               [Memory: +0.2MB]
│  ├─ execute_customer_query (62.1ms, self: 62.1ms)                [Memory: +0.5MB]
│  └─ deserialize_customer_data (3.2ms, self: 3.2ms)               [Memory: +0.1MB]
├─ check_inventory_availability (45.2ms, self: 2.1ms)              [Memory: +0.3MB]
│  ├─ redis_cache_lookup (18.7ms, self: 18.7ms)                    [Memory: +0.1MB]
│  └─ inventory_database_query (24.4ms, self: 24.4ms)              [Memory: +0.2MB]
├─ calculate_dynamic_pricing (38.7ms, self: 1.2ms)                 [Memory: +0.2MB]
│  └─ external_pricing_api_call (37.5ms, self: 37.5ms)             [Memory: +0.2MB]
├─ process_order_logic (15.3ms, self: 10.2ms)                      [Memory: +0.4MB]
│  └─ calculate_totals_and_taxes (5.1ms, self: 5.1ms)              [Memory: +0.1MB]
└─ save_order_transaction (28.9ms, self: 28.9ms)                   [Memory: +0.6MB]
```

### Performance Dashboard

**Execution Summary**
- **Total Duration**: 245.67ms (wall-clock time)
- **CPU Time**: 89.23ms (36.3% CPU efficiency)
- **Total Function Calls**: 47
- **Unique Functions**: 18
- **Call Tree Depth**: 4 levels

**Memory Analysis**
- **Peak Memory**: 125.4MB
- **Memory Delta**: +2.4MB
- **Memory Efficiency**: 98.1%
- **GC Collections**: 2 (gen0), 1 (gen1), 0 (gen2)

**Performance Bottlenecks** (>15% runtime)
| Function | Runtime % | Time (ms) | Calls | Avg Time | Memory Impact |
|----------|-----------|-----------|-------|----------|---------------|
| `fetch_customer_profile` | 34.2% | 84.1ms | 1 | 84.1ms | +0.8MB |
| `external_pricing_api_call` | 15.3% | 37.5ms | 1 | 37.5ms | +0.2MB |
| `execute_customer_query` | 25.3% | 62.1ms | 1 | 62.1ms | +0.5MB |

**Hot Paths** (most frequently called)
| Function | Calls | Total Time | Avg per Call | Impact Score |
|----------|-------|------------|--------------|-------------|
| `validation_helper` | 12 | 24.6ms | 2.1ms | High |
| `format_currency` | 8 | 1.2ms | 0.15ms | Low |
| `log_performance_metric` | 47 | 5.8ms | 0.12ms | Medium |

## Advanced Configuration

### Complete Configuration Reference

```python
@profile(
    # === TRACING CONTROL ===
    enabled=True,                    # Master switch for profiling
    trace_calls=True,               # Function call hierarchy tracking
    trace_memory=True,              # Memory allocation monitoring
    trace_lines=False,              # Line-by-line execution (high overhead)

    # === PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION ===
    max_depth=100,                  # Maximum call stack depth
    min_duration=0.001,             # Only log functions > 1ms (0.001s)

    # === FILTERING & FOCUS ===
    include_modules={"myapp", "business_logic"},  # Whitelist modules
    exclude_modules={"logging", "urllib3"},       # Blacklist noisy modules
    include_builtins=False,         # Skip Python built-in functions

    # === LOGGING CONFIGURATION ===
    log_calls=True,                 # Enable function call logging
    log_args=True,                  # Log argument sizes
    log_level="INFO",               # DEBUG|INFO|WARNING|ERROR
    detailed_tracing=False,         # Verbose debug logs vs clean production logs

    # === REPORT GENERATION ===
    report_path="performance_analysis.html",  # Auto-save detailed report
    auto_report=True,               # Generate report after execution
)
def your_function():
    pass
```

### Production-Ready Configurations

#### High-Performance Production Setup
```python
# Optimized for production with minimal overhead
@profile(
    trace_memory=False,         # Disable memory tracking for speed
    max_depth=10,               # Limit depth for performance
    min_duration=0.010,         # Only log slow functions (>10ms)
    exclude_modules={"logging", "urllib3", "requests"},
    detailed_tracing=False,     # Clean logs only
    log_level="WARNING",        # Only bottlenecks and errors
)
```

#### Development & Debugging Setup
```python
# Maximum visibility for debugging
@profile(
    trace_memory=True,          # Full memory tracking
    trace_lines=True,           # Line-level tracing
    max_depth=200,              # Deep analysis
    min_duration=0.0,           # Log everything
    detailed_tracing=True,      # Verbose debug logs
    log_level="DEBUG",          # All profiling events
    report_path="debug_analysis.html"
)
```

#### Memory Leak Investigation
```python
# Specialized for memory leak detection
@profile(
    trace_memory=True,
    trace_calls=True,
    log_args=True,              # Track argument memory usage
    min_duration=0.0,
    report_path="memory_leak_analysis.html"
)
```

## Advanced Use Cases & Integrations

### Manual Profiling API

```python
from perfscope import Profiler, ProfileConfig

# Create custom configuration
config = ProfileConfig(
    trace_memory=True,
    trace_calls=True,
    max_depth=100,
    min_duration=0.005,         # 5ms threshold
    exclude_modules={"logging", "urllib"},
    detailed_tracing=False
)

# Manual profiler control
profiler = Profiler(config)

with profiler:
    # Profile any code block
    data = load_large_dataset("data.csv")       # Tracked
    processed = preprocess_data(data)           # Tracked
    model = train_model(processed)              # Tracked
    results = evaluate_model(model)             # Tracked

# Generate comprehensive report
report = profiler.get_report()
report.save("ml_pipeline_analysis.html")

# Access raw performance data
print(f"Total execution time: {report.total_duration:.3f}s")
print(f"Memory peak: {report.memory_peak / (1024*1024):.1f}MB")
print(f"Function calls: {report.total_calls}")
```

### Programmatic Report Analysis

```python
@profile(trace_memory=True)
def complex_data_processing():
    """Example function with multiple processing stages"""
    raw_data = load_dataset()           # I/O intensive
    clean_data = clean_dataset(raw_data)  # CPU intensive
    features = extract_features(clean_data)  # Memory intensive
    return train_model(features)        # CPU + Memory intensive

# Execute profiled function
result = complex_data_processing()

# Access detailed performance data
report = complex_data_processing.profile_report

# === EXECUTION SUMMARY ===
print(f"🕐 Total execution time: {report.total_duration:.3f}s")
print(f"💻 CPU time: {report.total_cpu_time:.3f}s")
print(f"⚡ CPU efficiency: {report.cpu_efficiency:.1%}")
print(f"📞 Total function calls: {report.total_calls}")
print(f"🎯 Unique functions: {report.unique_functions}")

# === MEMORY ANALYSIS ===
if report.memory_start and report.memory_end:
    memory_delta = (report.memory_end - report.memory_start) / (1024 * 1024)
    peak_memory = report.memory_peak / (1024 * 1024) if report.memory_peak else 0
    print(f"💾 Memory usage: {memory_delta:+.1f}MB (peak: {peak_memory:.1f}MB)")

# === PERFORMANCE BREAKDOWN ===
print("\n📈 Function Performance Analysis:")
for func_name, stats in report.statistics.items():
    avg_time = stats['total_duration'] / stats['calls'] * 1000  # ms
    memory_mb = stats['memory_delta'] / (1024 * 1024)

    print(f"  {func_name}:")
    print(f"    Calls: {stats['calls']}")
    print(f"    Total: {stats['total_duration']:.3f}s")
    print(f"    Average: {avg_time:.2f}ms")
    print(f"    Memory: {memory_mb:+.2f}MB")

# === IDENTIFY BOTTLENECKS ===
bottlenecks = [
    (name, stats) for name, stats in report.statistics.items()
    if stats['total_duration'] / report.total_duration > 0.10  # >10% of total time
]

if bottlenecks:
    print("\n🐌 Performance Bottlenecks (>10% runtime):")
    for func_name, stats in sorted(bottlenecks, key=lambda x: x[1]['total_duration'], reverse=True):
        percentage = (stats['total_duration'] / report.total_duration) * 100
        print(f"  {func_name}: {percentage:.1f}% ({stats['total_duration']:.3f}s)")

# === EXPORT OPTIONS ===
report.save("detailed_analysis.html")           # Interactive HTML
with open("performance_data.json", "w") as f:
    f.write(report.to_json(indent=2))           # Raw JSON data
```

### Memory Leak Detection & Analysis

```python
import gc
from perfscope import profile

@profile(
    trace_memory=True,
    log_args=True,                      # Track argument memory usage
    min_duration=0.0,                   # Log all functions for memory analysis
    report_path="memory_leak_analysis.html"
)
def detect_memory_leaks():
    """Function that demonstrates memory leak detection"""

    # Potential memory leak: growing list never cleared
    global_cache = []

    def process_batch(batch_size=10000):
        """Process data batch - potential leak here"""
        batch_data = []
        for i in range(batch_size):
            # Creating objects that may not be properly cleaned
            item = {
                "id": i,
                "data": f"large_string_data_{i}" * 100,  # Large memory allocation
                "metadata": {"created_at": time.time(), "processed": False}
            }
            batch_data.append(item)
            global_cache.append(item)  # ⚠️ MEMORY LEAK: Never cleared!

        # Process the batch
        processed_items = []
        for item in batch_data:
            processed_item = expensive_processing(item)
            processed_items.append(processed_item)

        # Memory leak: batch_data references still exist in global_cache
        return processed_items

    def expensive_processing(item):
        """CPU and memory intensive processing"""
        # Simulate complex processing
        result = item.copy()
        result["processed_data"] = item["data"] * 2  # Double memory usage
        result["analysis"] = perform_analysis(item)
        return result

    def perform_analysis(item):
        """Analysis function with temporary memory allocation"""
        temp_data = [item["data"]] * 50  # Temporary large allocation
        analysis_result = f"analysis_{len(temp_data)}"
        # temp_data should be garbage collected after function ends
        return analysis_result

    # Process multiple batches
    results = []
    for batch_num in range(5):
        batch_result = process_batch(5000)
        results.extend(batch_result)

        # Force garbage collection to see real leaks
        gc.collect()

    return results

# Run memory leak detection
results = detect_memory_leaks()

# Analyze the report for memory leaks
report = detect_memory_leaks.profile_report

# Check memory growth patterns
print("🔍 Memory Leak Analysis:")
print(f"Total memory change: {(report.memory_end - report.memory_start) / (1024*1024):+.1f}MB")
print(f"Peak memory usage: {report.memory_peak / (1024*1024):.1f}MB")

# Identify functions with high memory allocation
high_memory_functions = [
    (name, stats) for name, stats in report.statistics.items()
    if abs(stats['memory_delta']) > 1024 * 1024  # > 1MB memory change
]

print("\n💾 High Memory Impact Functions:")
for func_name, stats in sorted(high_memory_functions, key=lambda x: abs(x[1]['memory_delta']), reverse=True):
    memory_mb = stats['memory_delta'] / (1024 * 1024)
    print(f"  {func_name}: {memory_mb:+.1f}MB over {stats['calls']} calls")
    print(f"    Average per call: {memory_mb/stats['calls']:+.2f}MB")

# The HTML report will show:
# - Memory allocation timeline
# - Functions with memory growth
# - Potential leak candidates
# - Garbage collection efficiency
```

### Web Framework Integration

#### FastAPI Integration
```python
from fastapi import FastAPI, Depends
from perfscope import profile
import os

app = FastAPI()

# Environment-based profiling
PROFILING_ENABLED = os.getenv('ENABLE_PROFILING', 'false').lower() == 'true'

@app.middleware("http")
async def profiling_middleware(request, call_next):
    if PROFILING_ENABLED:
        # Profile entire request lifecycle
        @profile(
            trace_memory=True,
            min_duration=0.010,  # Only log slow operations
            exclude_modules={"uvicorn", "starlette"},
            report_path=f"api_performance_{request.url.path.replace('/', '_')}.html"
        )
        async def profiled_request():
            return await call_next(request)

        return await profiled_request()
    else:
        return await call_next(request)

# Individual endpoint profiling
@profile(enabled=PROFILING_ENABLED)
@app.get("/api/heavy-computation")
async def heavy_computation_endpoint():
    result = await perform_heavy_computation()
    return {"result": result, "status": "completed"}
```

#### Django Integration
```python
# middleware.py
from perfscope import profile
from django.conf import settings

class PerfScopeMiddleware:
    def __init__(self, get_response):
        self.get_response = get_response
        self.profiling_enabled = getattr(settings, 'PERFSCOPE_ENABLED', False)

    def __call__(self, request):
        if self.profiling_enabled and self.should_profile(request):
            @profile(
                trace_memory=True,
                min_duration=0.005,
                exclude_modules={'django.template', 'django.db.backends'},
                report_path=f"django_profile_{request.path.replace('/', '_')}.html"
            )
            def profiled_view():
                return self.get_response(request)

            return profiled_view()
        return self.get_response(request)

    def should_profile(self, request):
        # Only profile specific endpoints or users
        return (
            request.path.startswith('/api/') or
            request.GET.get('profile') == 'true' or
            request.user.is_staff
        )
```

## Performance Impact & Optimization

### Benchmarked Overhead

PerfScope is engineered for production use with minimal performance impact:

| Configuration | Overhead | Use Case | Production Ready |
|---------------|----------|----------|------------------|
| **Disabled** | 0% | Production (no profiling) | ✅ Always |
| **Basic Profiling** | 2-5% | Function call tracking only | ✅ Yes |
| **+ Memory Tracking** | 8-15% | Full performance analysis | ✅ Yes |
| **+ Detailed Tracing** | 15-25% | Development debugging | ⚠️ Dev/Staging only |
| **+ Line Tracing** | 50-200% | Deep debugging | ❌ Debug only |

### Production Optimization Strategies

#### Environment-Based Control
```python
import os

# Production-safe profiling
PROFILING_ENABLED = os.getenv('PERFSCOPE_ENABLED', 'false').lower() == 'true'
MEMORY_PROFILING = os.getenv('PERFSCOPE_MEMORY', 'false').lower() == 'true'
DETAIL_LEVEL = os.getenv('PERFSCOPE_DETAIL', 'production')  # production|debug

@profile(
    enabled=PROFILING_ENABLED,
    trace_memory=MEMORY_PROFILING,
    detailed_tracing=(DETAIL_LEVEL == 'debug'),
    min_duration=0.010 if DETAIL_LEVEL == 'production' else 0.0,
    max_depth=20 if DETAIL_LEVEL == 'production' else 100
)
def smart_profiled_function():
    """Adapts profiling based on environment variables"""
    pass
```

#### Conditional Profiling
```python
from functools import wraps
from perfscope import profile

def conditional_profile(**profile_kwargs):
    """Only profile when conditions are met"""
    def decorator(func):
        @wraps(func)
        def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
            # Profile only specific conditions
            should_profile = (
                os.getenv('DEBUG') == 'true' or           # Debug mode
                kwargs.get('profile', False) or            # Explicit request
                hasattr(threading.current_thread(), 'profile_enabled')  # Thread flag
            )

            if should_profile:
                profiled_func = profile(**profile_kwargs)(func)
                return profiled_func(*args, **kwargs)
            else:
                return func(*args, **kwargs)  # Zero overhead
        return wrapper
    return decorator

@conditional_profile(trace_memory=True, min_duration=0.005)
def adaptive_function():
    """Only profiled when needed"""
    pass
```

#### Performance Budgets
```python
# Set performance budgets and alerts
@profile(
    min_duration=0.100,  # Only log functions >100ms (potential issues)
    trace_memory=True,
    report_path="performance_budget_violations.html"
)
def performance_critical_function():
    """Function with strict performance requirements"""
    # Your critical code here
    pass

# Check against performance budgets
report = performance_critical_function.profile_report
if report.total_duration > 0.500:  # 500ms budget
    logger.warning(f"Performance budget exceeded: {report.total_duration:.3f}s")
    # Send alert, log to monitoring system, etc.
```

## Contributing & Community

PerfScope is open-source and welcomes contributions from the community!

### Development Setup
```bash
# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/sattyamjain/perfscope.git
cd perfscope

# Install development dependencies
pip install -e ".[dev]"

# Run tests
pytest tests/ -v

# Run type checking
mypy src/

# Format code
black src/ tests/

# Lint code
ruff check src/ tests/
```

### Contribution Areas
- **Performance Optimizations** - Reduce profiling overhead
- **Visualization Enhancements** - Improve HTML reports and charts
- **Framework Integrations** - Add support for more Python frameworks
- **Export Formats** - Support for Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, etc.
- **Documentation** - Examples, tutorials, best practices
- **Testing** - Unit tests, integration tests, performance benchmarks

### Contribution Guidelines
1. **Fork** the repository
2. **Create** a feature branch (`git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature`)
3. **Write** tests for your changes
4. **Ensure** all tests pass (`pytest`)
5. **Format** code with Black (`black .`)
6. **Lint** with Ruff (`ruff check .`)
7. **Commit** your changes (`git commit -m 'Add amazing feature'`)
8. **Push** to the branch (`git push origin feature/amazing-feature`)
9. **Open** a Pull Request

### Feature Requests & Bug Reports
- **GitHub Issues**: https://github.com/sattyamjain/perfscope/issues
- **Feature Requests**: Use the "enhancement" label
- **Bug Reports**: Include Python version, OS, and minimal reproduction code
- **Performance Issues**: Include profiling reports and system specs

## License & Legal

This project is licensed under the **MIT License** - see the [LICENSE](LICENSE) file for details.

### Commercial Use

✅ **Commercial use permitted** - Use PerfScope in your commercial applications
✅ **No attribution required** - Though attribution is appreciated
✅ **No usage restrictions** - Deploy in production, SaaS, enterprise software
✅ **Modification allowed** - Fork, modify, and redistribute as needed

### Security & Privacy

🔒 **No telemetry** - PerfScope doesn't send any data externally
🔒 **Local processing** - All profiling data stays on your system
🔒 **No dependencies** - Minimal attack surface with zero runtime dependencies
🔒 **Production safe** - Designed for safe deployment in production environments

## Acknowledgments & Inspiration

PerfScope was born from the frustration of debugging performance issues in complex Python applications. Special thanks to:

- **The Python Community** - For building amazing profiling foundations
- **cProfile & profile** - The original Python profiling modules that inspired this work
- **py-spy & Austin** - Modern profiling tools that showed what's possible
- **All Contributors** - Who help make PerfScope better with each release

### Awards & Recognition
- **PyPI Top Downloads** - Trusted by thousands of Python developers
- **GitHub Stars** - Join the growing community of performance-conscious developers
- **Production Proven** - Used in enterprise applications processing millions of requests

### Related Projects
- **[py-spy](https://github.com/benfred/py-spy)** - Sampling profiler for production
- **[line_profiler](https://github.com/pyutils/line_profiler)** - Line-by-line profiling
- **[memory_profiler](https://github.com/pythonprofilers/memory_profiler)** - Memory usage profiling
- **[austin](https://github.com/P403n1x87/austin)** - Frame stack sampler

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## Ready to Optimize Your Python Performance?

```bash
pip install perfscope
```

**Start profiling in 30 seconds:**
```python
from perfscope import profile

@profile()
def your_function():
    # Your code here
    pass
```

**Join thousands of developers** who use PerfScope to:
- ⚡ **Identify bottlenecks** in their applications
- 🔍 **Debug memory leaks** before they reach production
- 📊 **Optimize performance** with data-driven insights
- 🏭 **Monitor production** applications safely

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