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title: "bearstech/phptop: PHP basic ressource profiler (CPU/memory), safe and useful for production sites"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/bearstech-phptop-php-basic-ressource-profiler-cpu-memory-safe-and-useful-for-production-sites-vhenx19ms
source_url: https://github.com/bearstech/phptop
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2025-06-05T19:30:51.511Z
updated: 2025-06-05T19:31:11.852Z
tags: ["php", "perl"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 16
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# bearstech/phptop: PHP basic ressource profiler (CPU/memory), safe and useful for production sites

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 2 min read · 16 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

phptop is a lightweight PHP resource profiler that monitors CPU time, memory usage, and other metrics for production websites. It requires minimal configuration (single line in php.ini) and provides per-query statistics similar to the Unix 'time' command. The tool has been production-tested for years and supports PHP 5.2.0 through 8.2, making it suitable for monitoring LAMP server performance without significant overhead.

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