List of performance analysis tools

This is a list of performance analysis tools for use in software development.

General purpose, language independent

The following tools work based on log files that can be generated from various systems.

  • time (Unix) - can be used to determine the run time of a program, separately counting user time vs. system time, and CPU time vs. clock time.[1]
  • timem (Unix) - can be used to determine the wall-clock time, CPU time, and CPU utilization similar to time (Unix) but supports numerous extensions.
    • Supports reporting peak resident set size, major and minor page faults, priority and voluntary context switches via getrusage.
    • Supports sampling procfs on supporting systems to report metrics such as page-based resident set size, virtual memory size, read-bytes, and write-bytes, etc.
    • Supports collecting hardware counters when built with PAPI support.

Multiple languages

The following tools work for multiple languages or binaries.

Name/Manufacturer OS Compiler/Language What It Does License
Arm MAP Linux C, C++, Fortran/Fortran90 and Python applications. Performance profiler. Shows I/O, communication, floating point operation usage and memory access costs.

Supports multi-threaded and multi-process applications - such as those with MPI or OpenMP parallelism and scales to very high node counts.

 Proprietary
AppDynamics by Cisco Linux, Windows, iOS, Android, Azure, AWS, AIX .NET, Java, PHP, HTML5, ObjectiveC/iOS, Java/Android, C/C++, Apache, Nginx, Cassandra, DataBases See Application Performance Management. Proprietary
AQtime by SmartBear Software Windows .NET 1.0 to 4.0 applications (including ASP.NET applications), Silverlight 4.0 applications, Windows 32- and 64-bit applications including C, C++, Delphi for Win32 and VBScript and JScript functions Performance profiler and memory/resource debugging toolset. Proprietary
CodeAnalyst by AMD Linux, Windows C, C++,Objective C .NET, Java (works at the executable level) AMD uProf supersedes CodeAnalyst and CodeXL for CPU and Power profiling on AMD processors.


GUI based code profiler; does only basic timer-based profiling on Intel processors. Based on OProfile.

 Free/open source (GPL) or proprietary
AMD CodeXL by AMD Linux, Windows For GPU profiling and debugging: OpenCL. A tool suite for GPU profiling, GPU debugger and a static kernel analyzer. Free/open source (MIT)
AMD uProf by AMD Linux, Windows C, C++, .NET, Java, Fortran Code profiler, does sampling based profiling on AMD processors. Proprietary
DevPartner by Borland / Micro Focus .NET, Java Test suite that automatically detects and diagnoses software defects and performance problems. Proprietary
DTrace by Sun Microsystems Solaris, Linux, BSD, macOS Comprehensive dynamic tracing framework for troubleshooting kernel and application problems on production systems in real time. Free/open source (CDDL)
dynamoRIO by RIO Linux, Windows Dynamic binary instrumentation framework for the development of dynamic program analysis tools. Free/open source - BSD
Dynatrace Linux, Windows, iOS, Android, Azure, AWS, AIX, Solaris, HP/UX, zOS, zLinux .NET, Java, PHP, HTML5, Ajax (for web sites), Objective-C/iOS, Java/Android, C/C++, CICS, Apache, Nginx, Cassandra, Hadoop, MongoDB, HBase See Application Performance Management. Proprietary
Extrae Linux, Android Primarily C/C++/Fortran, but can profile any application linking against supported parallel libraries (e.g. MPI4PY) HPC performance analysis tool with viewer and supporting utilities. Primarily designed for parallel applications with support for MPI, OpenMP, CUDA, OpenCL, pthreads, and OmpSs. Additional features include user function tracing and hardware event capture via PAPI. Free/open source - LGPL-2.1
FusionReactor Linux, Windows, macOS, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Java, ColdFusion, Apache, MongoDB Works with any Language supported by the JVM Performs Application Performance Management and Performance and Root Cause Analysis. Combines APM and Low Level Developer Style Tooling; also includes a debugger and Java, memory, thread, and CPU profilers. Proprietary
GlowCode Windows 64-bit and 32-bit applications, C, C++, .NET, and dlls generated by any language compiler. Performance and memory profiler that identifies time-intensive functions and detects memory leaks and errors. Proprietary
gprof Linux/Unix Any language supported by gcc Several tools with combined sampling and call-graph profiling. A set of visualization tools, VCG tools, uses the Call Graph Drawing Interface (CGDI) to interface with gprof. Another visualization tool that interfaces with gprof is KProf. Free/open source - BSD version is part of 4.2BSD and GNU version is part of GNU Binutils (by GNU Project)
Instana Linux, Windows, iOS, Android, Azure, AWS, AIX, Solaris, HP/UX, zOS, zLinux .NET, .Net core, Java, PHP, Ruby, Python, Crystal, Scala, Kotlin, Clojure, Haskell, Node.js, Web Browser, Apache, Nginx, Cassandra, Hadoop, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Kafka See Application Performance Management. Proprietary
Instruments with Xcode macOS C, C++, Objective-C/C++, Swift, Cocoa apps. Instruments shows a time line displaying any event occurring in the application, such as CPU activity variation, memory allocation, and network and file activity, together with graphs and statistics.

Group of events are monitored by selecting specific instruments from: File Activity, Memory Allocations, Time Profiler, GPU activity etc. For system wide impact of the executable: System Trace, System usage, Network Usage, Energy log etc are useful.

Free. Proprietary. Bundled with Xcode, which is also free.
Intel Advisor Linux and Windows. Viewer only on macOS. C, C++, Data Parallel C++ and Fortran A collection of design and analysis tools - vectorization (SIMD) optimization, thread prototyping, automated roofline analysis, offload modeling and flow graph analysis Freeware and Proprietary. Available as part of Intel oneAPI Base Toolkit.
Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT) Linux Requires patched kernel Collects data on processes blocking, context switches, and execution time. This helps identify performance problems over multiple processes or threads. Superseded by LTTng. GPL
LTTng (Linux Trace Toolkit Next Generation) Linux System software package for correlated tracing of kernel, applications and libraries. GPL/LGPL/MIT
OProfile Linux Profiles everything running on the Linux system, including hard-to-profile programs such as interrupt handlers and the kernel itself. Sampling profiler for Linux that counts cache misses, stalls, memory fetches, etc. Open Source GPLv2
Oracle Solaris Studio Performance Analyzer Linux, Solaris C, C++, Fortran, Java; MPI Performance and memory profiler. Proprietary freeware
perf tools Linux kernel 2.6.31+ Sampling profiler with support of hardware events on several architectures. GPL
Performance Application Programming Interface (PAPI) Various Library for hardware performance counters on modern microprocessors.
LIKWID Linux C/C++, Fortran, Python, Java and Lua Toolsuite of command line applications and library for performance oriented programmers (hardware performance monitoring, affinity control, etc.). GPLv3
Pin by Intel Linux, Windows, macOS, Android Dynamic binary instrumentation system that allows users to create custom program analysis tools. Proprietary but free for non-commercial use
Rational PurifyPlus AIX, Linux, Solaris, Windows Performance profiling tool, memory debugger and code coverage tool. Proprietary
Scalasca Linux C/C++, Fortran Parallel trace analyser. Free/open source (BSD license)
Shark by Apple macOS (discontinued with 10.7) Performance analyzer. Proprietary freeware
Superluminal Performance Windows, Xbox, PlayStation C, C++, Rust Hybrid sampling & instrumenting profiler, built with usability and scalability in mind. Proprietary
Systemtap Linux Programmable system tracing/probing tool; may be scripted to generate time- or performance-counter- or function-based profiles of the kernel and/or its userspace. Open source
timemory Linux, macOS, Windows C, C++, Python, Fortran Modular C++ toolkit for creating scalable custom instrumentation and sampling tools for performance analysis. Designed to minimize overhead by adapting to the interface of each performance analysis component at compile-time and simplify adding support for invocation and data storage within multi-threaded and multi-process runtimes. Includes many pre-built components for timing, resource usage, hardware-counters, Roofline Model, and the instrumentation APIs for VTune, Intel Advisor, LIKWID, and Arm MAP, among others. Components can be arbitrarily bundled together into a single handle for collective invocations and input argument broadcasting. Python bindings are provided for every component as a stand-alone class for implementing low-overhead Python profiling tools. Profiling via dynamic instrumentation is available on Linux. Free/Open-source (MIT)
Valgrind Linux, macOS, Solaris, Android Any, including assembler System for debugging and profiling; supports tools to either detect memory management and threading bugs, or profile performance (cachegrind and callgrind). KCacheGrind, valkyrie and alleyoop are front-ends for valgrind. Free/open source (GPL)
VTune Profiler by Intel Corporation

(formerly VTune Amplifier)

 Linux, Windows, viewer only for macOS C, C++, C#, Data Parallel C++ (DPC++), Fortran, .NET, Java, Python, Go, ASM Assembly A collection of profiling analyses implemented with sampling, instrumentation and processor trace technologies.  Includes Hotspot, Threading, HPC, I/O, FPGA, GPU, System, Throttling and Microarchitecture analyses. Freeware and Proprietary. Also available as a part of Intel oneAPI base toolkit.


Windows Performance Analysis Toolkit by Microsoft Windows Proprietary freeware
RotateRight Zoom Linux, macOS, Viewer Only for Windows Supports most compiled languages on ARM and x86 processors. Graphical and command-line statistical (event-based) profiler.
VisualSim Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows Supports C/C++/SystemC Graphical modeling and Simulation platform to select, analyze and validate architecture of complex electronics systems for performance, power and reliability. Proprietary

C and C++
  • Arm MAP, a performance profiler supporting Linux platforms.
  • AppDynamics, an application performance management solution for C/C++ applications via SDK.
  • AQtime Pro, a performance profiler and memory allocation debugger that can be integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio, and Embarcadero RAD Studio, or can run as a stand-alone application.
  • IBM Rational Purify was a memory debugger allowing performance analysis.
  • Instruments (bundled with Xcode) is used to profile an executable's memory allocations, time usage, filesystem activity, GPU activity etc.
  • Intel Parallel Studio contains Intel VTune Amplifier, which tunes both serial and parallel programs. It also includes Intel Advisor and Intel Inspector. Intel Advisor optimizes vectorization (use of SIMD instructions) and prototypes threading implementations. Intel Inspector detects and debugs races, deadlocks and memory errors.
  • Parasoft Insure++ provides a graphical tool that displays and animates memory allocations in real time to expose memory blowout, fragmentation, overuse, bottlenecks and leaks.
  • Timemory, a modular C++ toolkit for creating performance analysis tools which provides numerous command-line tools and libraries as a by-product of its flexibility and reusability.
  • Visual Studio Team System Profiler, commercial profiler by Microsoft.

Java
  • inspectIT is an open-source application performance management (APM) solution for monitoring and analyzing software applications, available under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2).
  • JConsole is the profiler which comes with the Java Development Kit
  • JProfiler
  • JRockit Mission Control, a profiler with low overhead.
  • Netbeans Profiler, a profiler integrated into the NetBeans IDE (internally uses jvisualvm profiler)
  • Plumbr, Java application performance monitoring with automated root cause detection. Links memory leaks, GC inefficiency, slow database and external web service calls, locked threads, and other performance problems to the line in source code that causes them.
  • OverOps, Continuous reliability for the modern software supply chain, automatically detect and deliver root cause automation for all errors.
  • VisualVM is a visual tool integrating several commandline JDK tools and lightweight profiling capabilities. It is bundled with the Java Development Kit since version 6, update 7.
  • FusionReactor, Java application performance monitoring - low overhead, production grade tools for production debugging, code profiling, memory and thread analysis

JavaScript

.NET
  • CLR Profiler is a free memory profiler provided by Microsoft for CLR applications.
  • GlowCode is a performance and memory profiler for .NET applications using C# and other .NET languages. It identifies time-intensive functions and detects memory leaks and errors in native, managed and mixed Windows x64 and x86 applications.
  • Visual Studio

PHP
  • BlackFire.io
  • Dbg
  • Xdebug is a PHP extension which provides debugging and profiling capabilities.

See also

References
  1. "CodeXL". Archived from the original on 19 September 2013. Retrieved 26 September 2013.
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