Elastic Universal Profiling comparisons
Elastic Universal Profiling is compared head-to-head with Pyroscope, Datadog Continuous Profiler and Google Cloud Profiler and more: 7 head-to-heads in Continuous Profiling Tools, each with the specs and prices we checked.
Elastic Universal Profiling head-to-head
- Elastic Universal Profiling vs Pyroscope
- Elastic Universal Profiling vs Datadog Continuous Profiler
- Elastic Universal Profiling vs Google Cloud Profiler
- Elastic Universal Profiling vs Amazon CodeGuru Profiler
- Elastic Universal Profiling vs Sentry Continuous Profiling
- Elastic Universal Profiling vs Dynatrace Continuous CPU Profiling
- Elastic Universal Profiling vs Splunk APM
Elastic Universal Profiling vs each of them
| # | Tool | Free plan | Paid from | Deployment | Language support | Profiling types | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | Elastic Universal Profiling | No | $99/mo | Hybrid | PHP, Python, Java/JVM, Go, Rust, C/C++, Node.js/V8, Ruby, Perl, Zig | CPU profiling through stack sampling | 8.8 |
| 1 | Pyroscope | Yes | $19/mo | 9.3 | |||
| 2 | Datadog Continuous Profiler | No | $19/unit/mo | Cloud | Java, .NET, Go, Python, Ruby, Node.js, PHP; C, C++, and Rust beta | CPU, memory, allocations, live heap, wall time, locks, exceptions, file I/O, socket I/O, goroutines | 9.2 |
| 3 | Google Cloud Profiler | Yes | Free | 9.1 | |||
| 4 | Amazon CodeGuru Profiler | No | $0.005/unit/mo | 8.9 | |||
| 6 | Sentry Continuous Profiling | Yes | $26/mo | Cloud | Node.js, Python, PHP, Browser JavaScript, Android Java/Kotlin, iOS Swift/Objective-C | continuous backend profiling, mobile UI profiling | 8.7 |
| 7 | Dynatrace Continuous CPU Profiling | No | $58/unit/mo | Cloud | Java, .NET, Node.js, Go | CPU profiling, thread analysis, memory allocation profiling | 8.5 |
| 8 | Splunk APM | No | 8.3 |
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