Diagnostics

Official overview of Go profiling, tracing, benchmarking, and runtime diagnostic tooling.

• Author: Go Team
• Authority: primary
• Kind: guide
• URL: https://go.dev/doc/diagnostics

What it covers

• profiling and tracing tools
• runtime diagnostics workflow
• benchmarking and investigation entrypoints

Why authoritative

Go Team diagnostics guide covering the official toolchain.

Use when

• which Go diagnostic tool should I use
• how do I investigate this Go performance issue
• what runtime diagnostics exist in Go

Keywords

• diagnostics, profiling, tracing, benchmarking, tooling

Used by

• escape-analysis
• execution-tracing
• profiling