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Python frame stack sampler for CPython

26 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 9 stories, 17 comments · first 2019-12-04 · latest 2025-11-20

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  1. …with no manual instrumentation and virtually zero impact on the runtime. You can find the code at https://github.com/P403n1x87/austin The main highlights of the new release are the support for Python 3.14, as well as many substantial…
    comment by p403n1x87 · 2025-11-20 · in Austin 4 Released
  2. …want to look at: 1] https://github.com/joerick/pyinstrument 2] https://github.com/benfred/py-spy 3] https://github.com/P403n1x87/austin 4] https://github.com/bloomberg/memray 5] https://github.com/pyutils/line_profiler
    comment by infocollector · 2024-10-22 · in Scalene: A high-performance, high-precision CPU, GPU, memory profiler for Python
  3. …allocations at all anymore, and I don't quite trust that this is correct. There is also Austin ( https://github.com/P403n1x87/austin ), which I also wanted to try (have not yet). Somehow this experience so far was very disappointing. Side…
    comment by albertzeyer · 2024-02-10 · in Memray – A Memory Profiler for Python
  4. This seems to be heavily based on Austin https://github.com/P403n1x87/austin/blob/master/src/version.... https://github.com/bloomberg/pystack/blob/a971a4ced371a5859f...
    comment by p403n1x87 · 2023-06-08 · in Pystack: Like Pstack but for Python
  5. This should work with anything https://github.com/P403n1x87/austin
    comment by p403n1x87 · 2022-04-21 · in Memray: a memory profiler for Python
  6. Just wanted to add Austin: Python frame stack sampler for CPython written in pure C ( https://github.com/P403n1x87/austin )
    comment by zuj · 2021-12-18 · in Tqdm (Python)
  7. Austin: https://github.com/p403n1x87/austin
    comment by BiteCode_dev · 2021-11-03 · in Pyheatmagic: Profile and view your Python code as a heat map
  8. …collecting data with austinp, don't forget to resolve symbol names with the resolve.py utility ( https://github.com/P403n1x87/austin/blob/devel/utils/resolve... , see the README for more details: https://github.com/P403n1x87/austin/blob/dev…
    comment by p403n1x87 · 2021-09-28 · in Spy on Python down to the Linux kernel level
  9. Make sure you have Austin ( https://github.com/P403n1x87/austin ) installed. See https://p403n1x87.github.io/how-to-bust-python-performance-i... for an example.
    comment by p403n1x87 · 2021-07-04 · in Show HN: Austin VS Code – Interactive Python Profiling in VS Code
  10. This is a TUI for the profiler Austin, whose README has a bit more detail on what it can do: https://github.com/P403n1x87/austin
    comment by emddudley · 2020-10-27 · in Show HN: Austin-Tui – Spy inside a running Python program at no performance cost
  11. For these kind of things one could use https://github.com/P403n1x87/austin-python An early attempt at an APM that was specifically designed to measure endpoint response times was here https://github.com/P403n1x87/austin/blob/apm/austin/apm.…
    comment by p403n1x87 · 2020-10-27 · in Show HN: Austin-Tui – Spy inside a running Python program at no performance cost
  12. …austin's code for reading memory here, and it's implemented for 3 platforms in just 130 lines of C: https://github.com/P403n1x87/austin/blob/877e2ff946ea5313e47...
    comment by jvns · 2020-10-27 · in Show HN: Austin-Tui – Spy inside a running Python program at no performance cost
  13. …with Austin itself. Just pass the pid of the web server sudo austin-tui -Cp <webserverpid> See https://github.com/P403n1x87/austin#examples for more details. To avoid using sudo on Linux you can do sudo setcap cap_sys_ptrace+ep `which…
    comment by p403n1x87 · 2020-10-27 · in Show HN: Austin-Tui – Spy inside a running Python program at no performance cost
  14. …a lot of similar features to py-spy. I haven't made a direct comparison yet between the two. [1] https://github.com/P403n1x87/austin
    comment by synparb · 2020-10-20 · in PyInstrument – A statistical Python profile that focuses on the slow parts
  15. …away, even while it's running on a production environment, with minimal impact on performance. https://github.com/P403n1x87/austin The simplest way of using Austin is by piping its output to FlameGraph for a quick and detailed…
    comment by p403n1x87 · 2020-10-14 · in Austin – CPython frame stack sampler v2.0.0 is now available
  16. …has no other dependencies other than the C standard library. Its source code is hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/P403n1x87/austin The README contains installation and usage details, as well as some examples of Austin in action.…
    comment by p403n1x87 · 2020-07-10 · in Austin, the Python statistical profiler v1.0.1 out now
  17. …survey of python profilers that hasn't been published yet, and along with py-spy, there is austin ( https://github.com/P403n1x87/austin ). The thing that I liked the most about austin is that it also samples the memory usage of the system…
    comment by simtel20 · 2019-12-04 · in BPF: A New Type of Software