Blackfire Profiler is a tool that instruments PHP applications to gather data about consumed server resources like memory, CPU time, and I/O operations. Blackfire is also a SaaS service to visualize any callgrind-compatible profile.
| Developer(s) | SensioLabs |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 1.4.0
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| Written in | Go, PHP and JavaScript |
| Operating system | Linux Mac OS X FreeBSD and Microsoft_Windows |
| Type | Performance analysis |
| License | commercial |
| Website | blackfire |
Its architecture [1][non-primary source needed] is based on a Probe, which is a PHP extension that gathers the raw performance profiles and an Agent, which is a server-side daemon that aggregates and forwards profiles to blackfire.io servers to visualize them.
Blackfire has been used by some popular PHP projects such as ownCloud, Drupal, Symfony and Laravel to improve their performance[2] and to spot performance bottlenecks.[3][4][better source needed][5][better source needed]
As of March 2015[update] Blackfire is actively developed.[6][7][better source needed]
Features
edit- Profile web pages,[8][non-primary source needed] command line scripts [9][non-primary source needed] and APIs and web services.[10][non-primary source needed]
- Compatible with the profiles generated with XHProf, Xdebug and Google Chrome CPU Profiler.
- Compare two profiles to spot the parts of the application which have been improved or degraded.
- Automatic aggregation of negligible internal PHP functions.
- Detection of PHP Garbage Collector cycles.
- Application performance management (APM).[11]
References
edit- ^ Sensiolabs. "Configuration - Blackfire". blackfire.io. Retrieved 2015-03-22.
- ^ "Blackfire and recent performance optimizations in ownCloud | ownCloud.org". owncloud.org. Retrieved 2015-03-22.
- ^ "Make the InstallKernel progressively build the container instead of building, compiling and dumping from scratch on every module install (38x) [#2396939] | Drupal.org". drupal.org. Retrieved 2015-03-22.
- ^ "[DomCrawler] Improve namespace discovery performance by jakzal · Pull Request #14012 · symfony/symfony · GitHub". github.com. Retrieved 2015-03-22.
- ^ "Researching Laravel 5 Framework". github.com. Retrieved 2015-04-10.
- ^ Blackfire.io. "Blackfire Blog". blog.blackfire.io. Retrieved 2015-03-22.
- ^ "Blackfire · GitHub". github.com. Retrieved 2015-03-22.
- ^ Sensiolabs. "Profiling Web Pages - Blackfire". blackfire.io. Retrieved 2015-03-22.
- ^ Sensiolabs. "Profiling CLI Scripts - Blackfire". blackfire.io. Retrieved 2015-03-22.
- ^ Sensiolabs. "Profile an API/Web Service Call - Blackfire". blackfire.io. Retrieved 2015-03-22.
- ^ Sensiolabs. "Application Performance Monitoring". blackfire.io. Retrieved 2021-05-05.