Artem Krylysov


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Profiling and optimizing Go web applications

Note

This post was updated on 2021-04-25.

Go has a powerful built-in profiler that supports CPU, memory, goroutine and block (contention) profiling.

Enabling the profiler #

Go provides a low-level profiling API runtime/pprof, but if you are developing a long-running service, it's more convenient to work with a high-level net/http/pprof package.

All you need to enable the profiler is to import net/http/pprof and it will automatically register the required HTTP handlers:

package main

import (
    "net/http"
    _ "net/http/pprof"
)

func hiHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
    w.Write([]byte("hi"))
}

func main() {
    http.HandleFunc("/", hiHandler)
    http.ListenAndServe(":8080", nil)
}