Bytehound
A high-performance memory profiler for Linux that captures every allocation and deallocation with full stack traces.
What is Bytehound?
Bytehound is a memory profiler for Linux that helps developers analyze memory leaks, identify where memory is consumed, and investigate excessive fragmentation. It captures every allocation and deallocation with full stack traces and provides multiple analysis interfaces, including a web-based GUI and export formats like JSON and flamegraphs. The tool is designed for performance, using a custom stack unwinding implementation that is significantly faster than similar tools.
Developers and system engineers working on Linux applications who need to diagnose memory-related issues such as leaks, high consumption, or fragmentation, particularly in performance-sensitive or memory-constrained environments.
Developers choose Bytehound for its high-performance stack unwinding, which can be orders of magnitude faster than alternatives, and its flexibility with features like dynamic data culling for long-term profiling, remote streaming, and support for multiple architectures and allocators like jemalloc.
Overview
A memory profiler for Linux.
Use Cases
Best For
- Analyzing memory leaks in long-running Linux applications with detailed stack traces.
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