sftpgo-mirror/docs/profiling.md

Profiling SFTPGo

The built-in profiler lets you collect CPU profiles, traces, allocations and heap profiles that allow to identify and correct specific bottlenecks. You can enable the built-in profiler using the --profiler command flag.

Profiling data are exposed via HTTP/HTTPS in the format expected by the pprof visualization tool. You can find the index page at the URL /debug/pprof/.

The following profiles are available, you can obtain them via HTTP GET requests:

• allocs, a sampling of all past memory allocations
• block, stack traces that led to blocking on synchronization primitives
• goroutine, stack traces of all current goroutines
• heap, a sampling of memory allocations of live objects. You can specify the gc GET parameter to run GC before taking the heap sample
• mutex, stack traces of holders of contended mutexes
• profile, CPU profile. You can specify the duration in the seconds GET parameter. After you get the profile file, use the go tool pprof command to investigate the profile
• threadcreate, stack traces that led to the creation of new OS threads
• trace, a trace of execution of the current program. You can specify the duration in the seconds GET parameter. After you get the trace file, use the go tool trace command to investigate the trace

For example you can:

• download a 30 seconds CPU profile from the URL /debug/pprof/profile?seconds=30
• download a sampling of memory allocations of live objects from the URL /debug/pprof/heap?gc=1
• download a sampling of all past memory allocations from the URL /debug/pprof/allocs