Datadog on Profiling in Production
Depending on your chosen programming language and stack, you may have never used a profiler in production. The very idea of using a profiler in production for a web service may seem unrealistic, due to the amount of overhead involved. After all, aren’t profilers extremely computationally expensive to run? Despite a reputation for being computationally expensive, many programming languages have examples of profilers built to run in production. The importance of seeing how your application behaves in production is critically important to understanding how it performs in the real world.
