Version	8.14.1 (View all)
Compatible Kibana version(s)	8.12.0 or higher
Supported Serverless project types What's this?	Security Observability
Subscription level What's this?	Basic

Universal Profiling provides fleet-wide, whole-system, continuous profiling with zero instrumentation.

Get a comprehensive understanding of what lines of code are consuming compute resources throughout your entire fleet by visualizing your data in Kibana using the flamegraph, stacktraces, and top functions views.

Requirements

• The workloads to be profiled must be running on Linux machines; with kernel >=4.15
• Elastic Cloud, version 8.7 or higher

Key Features

Frictionless Deployment

Powered by eBPF, Universal Profiling does not require any application source code changes, instrumentation, on-host debug symbols, or other intrusive operations. Just deploy the agent and receive profiling data a few minutes later.

Always-on in Production

With extremely low overhead, Universal Profiling aims to stay within a budget of 1% of CPU usage and less than 250MB of RAM, meaning that for most workloads, even in production, it can run 24/7 with no noticeable impact on the profiled systems.

Whole-System Visibility

Universal Profiling builds stack traces that go from the kernel, through userspace native code, all the way into code running in higher level runtimes, enabling unprecedented insight into your system’s behaviour at all levels.

Heterogeneous Visibility

Universal Profiling even supports mixed-language stack traces. For example, Python or Java code calling native code and then calling into the kernel

The following language runtimes are supported: PHP, Python, Java (or any JVM language), Go, Rust, C/C++, Node.js/V8, Ruby, and Perl.

The minimum supported versions are:

• PHP: >= 7.3
• Python: >= 3.6
• JVM/JDK: >= 7
• V8: >= 8.1.0
• Ruby: >= 2.5
• Perl: >= 5.28

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Changelog

Version	Details	Kibana version(s)
8.14.1	Bug fix View pull request Don't use secret variables	8.12.0 or higher
8.14.0	Enhancement View pull request Use secret variables	8.12.0 or higher
8.12.0	Enhancement View pull request Allow customization of telemetry configuration	8.12.0 or higher
8.11.0	Enhancement View pull request Add agent_metrics configuration options	8.10.3 or higher
8.10.0	Enhancement View pull request Add input configuration options	8.10.2 or higher
8.9.1-preview	Enhancement View pull request Add input configuration	—
8.9.0-preview	Enhancement View pull request Initial draft of the package	—