List of performance analysis tools

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


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General purpose, language independent [edit]

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

  • TimeToPic visualizes a log file. If system has logging facility, its output can be shown on visual timeline. Developer can see from visualization what is happening on log. There are version for Windows and Linux. Supports log sizes up to 1 Gigabyte.
  • 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.

Multiple languages [edit]

The following tools work for multiple languages or binaries.

Name/Manufacturer OS Compiler/Language What It Does License
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 AMD, Intel hardware x86 based machines Linux, Windows GUI based code profiler; does only basic timer-based profiling on Intel processors. Based on OProfile. Free/open source (GPL) or proprietary
Caliper by HP HP-UX with Intel Itanium Integrity platform (IA-64). Profiling tool
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, Mac OS X Comprehensive dynamic tracing framework for troubleshooting kernel and application problems on production systems in real time. Free/open source (CDDL)
Lucierna by Lucierna[1] Linux (any distribution, kernel 2.6+), Sun Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, MacOS X 10.7 +, MS Windows Server 2003, 2008 .NET, Java and PHP (for web sites and desktop software) Application Performance Management Proprietary
dynaTrace by Compuware[2] .NET, Java, AJAX (for web sites) Application Performance Management Proprietary
DynInst Linux, Windows, BlueGene/Q API to allow dynamic injection of code into a running program Free/open source
GlowCode Windows 64-bit and 32-bit applications, C, C++, .NET, and dlls generated by any language compiler. Performance and memory profiler which 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 which 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)
IgProf[3] Linux Any compiled language (C, C++, Fortran, etc.), python (cProfile) compatibility Performance (sampling) and memory (heap, leaks, total dynamic allocations) profiler, plus dynamic binary instrumentation. Text and navigable webpage output with full call graphs. GPL
Linux Trace Toolkit 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.
LTProf[4] Windows Visual C++, Borland CBuilder, Delphi and VB applications CPU profiling tool
LTTng (Linux Trace Toolkit Next Generation) Linux System software package for correlated tracing of kernel, applications and libraries
OProfile[5] 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[6] Linux, Solaris C, C++, Fortran, Java; MPI Performance and memory profiler
Paraver Linux, Mac OS X, Windows [7] For parallel computing clusters Performance analysis tool based on trace files; allows viewing the progress of the application in a temporal axis and also perform accumulation of performance metrics in a table like regular profilers. Free/open source (LGPL)
PGPROF by The Portland Group Linux, MacOS X, Windows C, C++, and Fortran applications using OpenMP and MPI parallelism Sampling and compiler-based instrumentation for application profiling Proprietary
PmcTools FreeBSD Provides non-intrusive, low-overhead and innovative ways of measuring and analysing system performance. It exploits the same underlying counters as Linux' OProfile.
perf tools Linux kernel 2.6.31+ Sampling profiler
Performance Application Programming Interface (PAPI) Various Library for hardware performance counters on modern microprocessors
Pin by Intel[8] Linux, Windows Dynamic binary instrumentation system that allows users to create custom program analysis tools Proprietary but free for non-commercial use
pprof, part of gperftools[9] by Google Sampling profiler with context-sensitive call graph capability.
Rational PurifyPlus AIX, Linux, Solaris, Windows Performance profiling tool, memory debugger and code coverage tool Proprietary
Shark by Apple Mac OS X (discontinued with 10.7) Performance analyzer Free
Shiny[10] Cross-platform C, C++, Lua Performance analyzer with call graphs and time allocations Free/open source (MIT license)
SlowSpotter and ThreadSpotter by Acumem Linux, Solaris Most compiled languages including Ada Diagnose performance problems related to data locality, cache utilization and thread interactions.
Sysprof Linux Sampling CPU profiler that uses a kernel module to profile the entire system, as opposed to a single application. It displays the time spent in each branch of the applications' calltrees.[11]
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.
Valgrind Linux 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 Amplifier XE by Intel Corporation Linux, Windows C, C++, Fortran, .NET, Java Tool for serial and threaded performance analysis. Hotspot, call tree and threading analysis works on both Intel and AMD x86 processors. Hardware event sampling that uses the on chip performance monitoring unit requires an Intel processor. Proprietary
Windows Performance Analysis Toolkit by Microsoft[12] Windows Freeware/proprietary
RotateRight Zoom Linux Supports most compiled languages on ARM and x86 processors. Graphical and command-line statistical (event-based) profiler

Ada [edit]

  • Acumem SlowSpotter and Acumem ThreadSpotter
  • AdaNav sometimes bundled with ObjectAda
  • NightTrace and the instrumented RedHawk Linux kernel from Concurrent Computer Corporation
  • RootCause from OC Systems

C and C++ [edit]

  • AQTime Pro Performance profiler and memory allocation debugger can be integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio, Embarcadero RAD Studio or can run as a stand-alone application.
  • CodeTune[13] is a free, easy to use, GUI-based profiler for Windows applications
  • Embedded Profiler[14] for gcc, MinGW, and Visual Studio
  • Intel Parallel Studio contains Parallel Amplifier, which tunes both serial and parallel programs. It also includes Parallel Inspector, which detects races, deadlocks and memory errors. Parallel Composer includes codecov, a command line coverage tool.
  • Parasoft Insure++[15] Provides a graphical tool that displays and animates memory allocations in real time to expose memory blowout, fragmentation, overuse, bottlenecks and leaks.
  • Proffy[16] For Windows, includes a C++ header and produces call graphs.
  • Very Sleepy,[17] a simple yet effective profiler which can profile any native Windows application with built-in debugging information (without need for recompilation). It is released under GPL.
  • Visual Studio Team System Profiler is Microsoft's commercial profiler

(see also "Multiple languages" section above)

Delphi [edit]

Java [edit]

JavaScript [edit]

.NET [edit]

  • PerfView is a free CPU and memory profiler provided by the .NET Performance team for C#, VB, and F# applications running on the CLR. It can also profile native and Javascript code.
  • CLR Profiler is a free memory profiler provided by Microsoft for CLR applications.
  • EQATEC Profiler is a performance profiler for .NET, Windows Phone7, .NET CF and Silverlight, free and licensed versions
  • 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.
  • JetBrains dotTrace Profiler is a commercial performance and memory profiler for .NET, Silverlight, .NET CF 3.5, SharePoint, XBAP and XNA Framework
  • NProf NProf was an open source statistical profiler for .NET. It is no longer actively developed[19]
  • Red Gate ANTS Performance Profiler is a commercial profiler for .NET
  • Scitech .NET Memory Profiler[20] - proprietary
  • SlimTune A free profiling and performance tuning tool for .NET applications with an open source MIT License
  • SpeedTrace Pro is a commercial performance analysis and tracing tool for .NET
  • Telerik JustTrace is a commercial memory and performance profiler for .NET.
  • Visual Studio
  • Insight Profiler is a free performance profiler with call sequence recording. The homepage is in German but the actual software is English.[21]

Oracle Database [edit]

  • MERITS Profiler is an Oracle SQL trace profiler that integrates the performance measurements in SQL trace files with information from the data dictionary (e.g. object statistics, table/index structure) and V$ dynamic performance views (e.g. v$bh, v$sql_plan_statistics_all) as well as with Active Workload Repository or Statspack (e.g. for previous execution plans).
  • Method R Profiler is a commercial response time profiler for Oracle SQL trace files.
  • MR Tools is a commercial suite of utilities for manipulating and mining Oracle SQL trace files.
  • MR Trace is a commercial extension for Oracle SQL Developer that collects and manages Oracle SQL trace files.
  • tkprof is a command-line utility distributed by Oracle Corporation, which formats Oracle SQL trace output into human readable format.
  • Lightprofiler is a freeware suite of utilities for manipulating Oracle SQL trace files.

PHP [edit]

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

See also [edit]

References [edit]

  1. ^ http://www.lucierna.com/products-application-performance-management-apm/
  2. ^ https://www.compuware.com/application-performance-management/dynatrace-enterprise.html
  3. ^ http://www.igprof.org
  4. ^ http://www.lw-tech.com
  5. ^ "Smashing performance with OProfile" by Prasanna Panchamukhi
  6. ^ "Oracle Solaris Studio 12.3: Performance Analyzer". Oracle Corporation. Retrieved 2010-09-11. 
  7. ^ http://www.bsc.es/computer-sciences/performance-tools/downloads
  8. ^ "Pin: building customized program analysis tools with dynamic instrumentation"
  9. ^ http://code.google.com/p/gperftools/
  10. ^ http://code.google.com/p/shinyprofiler/
  11. ^ "Profiling entire system activity with sysprof" by Ben Martin
  12. ^ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/performance/default.aspx
  13. ^ http://www.thewallsoft.com/codetune/
  14. ^ http://www.embeddedprofiler.com/
  15. ^ http://www.parasoft.com/jsp/products/insure.jsp?itemId=63
  16. ^ http://www.pauldoo.com/proffy/
  17. ^ http://www.codersnotes.com/sleepy
  18. ^ http://nodetime.com/
  19. ^ http://code.google.com/p/nprof/
  20. ^ http://memprofiler.com/
  21. ^ http://insightprofiler.productivity-boost.com/

External links [edit]

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