A real-time profiler for Ruby applications with a GUI client for visualizing performance data.
Rbkit is a real-time profiler for Ruby applications that collects performance data—including object allocations, garbage collection statistics, and CPU usage—and streams it to a GUI client for visualization. It helps developers identify performance bottlenecks and memory issues in their Ruby code without significant overhead.
Ruby developers and engineers who need to profile and optimize the performance of Ruby applications, particularly those working on Rails projects or long-running processes.
Rbkit offers real-time profiling with a dedicated GUI for data visualization, allowing developers to monitor application performance dynamically. Its low-overhead design and flexible integration make it suitable for profiling production-like environments.
A new profiler for Ruby. With a GUI
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Streams profiling data live to a separate GUI client, enabling dynamic analysis of object allocations, GC stats, and CPU usage without stopping the application.
The server remains inactive until a client connects, as stated in the README, ensuring low impact during normal operation.
Supports configurable tracepoints for object creation/deletion, GC statistics, and CPU profiling with sampling intervals, offering detailed insights.
Can be injected into Rails applications or used standalone without Rubygems, providing versatility for different profiling scenarios.
The README explicitly warns that Rbkit is not maintained at the moment, leading to potential bugs, compatibility issues with newer Ruby versions, and lack of support.
Installation requires prerequisites like libtool, autoconf, and automake, and may involve compiling C extensions manually, increasing setup time and effort.
Relies on a separate GUI client (rbkit-client) that may also be unmaintained, and the overall toolchain is niche with sparse community updates or alternatives.
As an unmaintained project with C extensions, there are risks of crashes or incompatibilities in production environments, especially with evolving Ruby releases.