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Continuous profiling for Ruby

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Upsun Continuous Profiler is powered by Blackfire. It is available directly the Console, under the Profiling tab of your environments.

The Ruby continuous profiling is currently made across 3 dimensions:

  • CPU Time: Time spent running on the CPU
  • Wall-time: elapsed time per function call
  • Allocations: Time spent running on the CPU

The default sampling frequency is 100 Hz. This means the Ruby continuous profiler is collecting information 100 times per second.

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Upsun Continuous Profiler requires Ruby >= 2.5.

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  1. Add the datadog gem to your Gemfile or gems.rb file:
gem 'datadog', '~> 2.0'

  1. Install the gems running the bundle install command.

  2. Add the ddprofrb exec command to your Ruby application start command:

bundle exec ddprofrb exec ruby myrubyapp.rb

Rails example:

bundle exec ddprofrb exec bin/rails s

Alternatively, start the profiler by adding the following code in your application’s entry point if you can’t start it using ddprofrb exec:

require 'datadog/profiling/preload'