Amazon CodeGuru Profiler vs Sentry Continuous Profiling

Amazon CodeGuru Profiler collects runtime performance data from live applications and recommends ways to improve performance and find CPU bottlenecks. It is designed for continuous profiling of production applications with minimal overhead. Interactive flame graphs show CPU and latency analysis, including which code paths use the most resources. Machine learning recommendations identify expensive methods and explain their cause, impact, and possible resolution.

The service can detect anomalies in application profiles and, when configured, send an Amazon SNS notification for a new anomaly. It supports Java, JVM languages such as Scala and Kotlin, and Python 3.6 or later. Java and other JVM languages can be profiled for CPU and heap summary; Python profiling covers CPU wall-clock time. Applications may run on EC2, ECS, EKS, Fargate, Lambda, or on premises. The agent can be enabled in JVM applications from the command line or application code and is also used for Lambda applications. An AWS account is required, with IAM permissions controlling access. The agent collects stack traces, not parameter names or values, variable values, or application data.

Sentry Continuous Profiling helps teams locate backend performance bottlenecks in Node.js and Python code, down to functions and lines. Continuous profiles can run for unlimited durations. An Aggregate Flamegraph summarizes project performance without requiring a single transaction as its scope. Developers can control profiling manually with SDK APIs or configure it to follow a trace lifecycle, starting when a root span is active. UI Profiling covers iOS, macOS and Android, with browser JavaScript and Electron also listed. Sentry says profiling requires performance monitoring to be enabled in the app, and availability for continuous profiling depends on the SDK. Continuous and UI Profiling use separate profile-hour billing measures and are available through pay-as-you-go usage. Sentry lists a free plan and paid pricing from $26/mo. Its integrations include GitHub, Jira, Slack, GitLab, Linear, Microsoft Teams and PagerDuty. Sentry says its service is hosted on Google Cloud Platform and has SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 certification and a HIPAA attestation.