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Understand performance with Cloud Profiler
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Cloud Profiler is a statistical, low-overhead profiler that
continuously gathers CPU usage and memory-allocation information from your
production applications. It attributes that information to the source code
that generated it, helping you identify the parts of your application that are
consuming the most resources, and otherwise illuminating your applications
performance characteristics. For a detailed overview, see
Profiling concepts in the Cloud Profiler
documentation.
To capture profiling data for the latest supported Java runtime, see
Profiling Java applications.
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Last updated 2025-09-04 UTC.
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