Continuous Profiling
Noun · Development
Definitions
The ongoing collection of profiling data from running applications in production or near-production environments to understand where CPU time, memory, or other resources are being spent over time. Continuous profiling helps teams catch regressions and hot paths that synthetic tests or one-off local profiles may miss.
In plain English: Collecting performance profiles continuously from running systems instead of only during one-off debugging sessions.
Example: "Continuous profiling revealed that a new serialization library was gradually dominating CPU across the fleet during peak traffic, even though no alert threshold had fired yet."