---
title: "A Practical Guide to Profiling in Go"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-practical-guide-to-profiling-in-go-fvzkksvyy
source_url: https://blog.jetbrains.com/go/2026/05/20/golang-profiling-guide
type: article
source: "JetBrains"
published: 2026-05-20T13:04:59.537Z
updated: 2026-05-20T13:07:05.686Z
tags: ["performance", "devtools", "golang"]
reading_time: 22
upvotes: 16
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# A Practical Guide to Profiling in Go

**[JetBrains](https://daily.dev/sources/jetbrains)** · 22 min read · 16 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

A comprehensive guide to Go profiling using pprof, covering CPU, memory (heap/allocs), block, mutex, and goroutine profiles. Explains how each profile type works, when to use them, and how to interpret results. Covers three collection methods: runtime/pprof for code-controlled profiling, net/http/pprof for long-running services, and GoLand's new built-in profiler tool (v2026.1.2+). Also walks through inspecting profiles via terminal commands, the pprof web interface, and GoLand's flame graph, call graph, top, tree, and line profiler views.

## Full article

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