Python App Engine flexible environment

Shows how to initialize Cloud Profiler with Python on App Engine flexible environment.

Code sample

Python

For more information, see the Profiler Python API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Profiler, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment. 

import googlecloudprofiler

# Profiler initialization. It starts a daemon thread which continuously
# collects and uploads profiles. Best done as early as possible.
try:
    # service and service_version can be automatically inferred when
    # running on App Engine. project_id must be set if not running
    # on GCP.
    googlecloudprofiler.start(verbose=3)
except (ValueError, NotImplementedError) as exc:
    print(exc)  # Handle errors here

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