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Profiling with firepit#3333

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This PR add's profiling to the otel demo and uses firepit as the backend to process and display profiles as a flame graph.

Closes: #1601

To run the demo with profiling:

make start-profiling

Profiling

Firepit

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Usage

Enable adHighCpu with Flagd Configurator.

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OTel collector added for profiling with highenend privileges. Send the
profiling data to a pyroscope backend.
Makefile updated with start-profiling target which starts the demo along
with the profiling collector.
@github-actions github-actions Bot added the helm-update-required Requires an update to the Helm chart when released label Apr 30, 2026
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Can we utilize collector as a gateway for profiling as for any other signals?
Then it should go firepit/any other endpoitn.

This shows how you can use the main collector as a gateway for all otel
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Can we utilize collector as a gateway for profiling as for any other signals? Then it should go firepit/any other endpoitn.

Good shout, we can indeed do this. I have updated the PR. We now send the profiling signal from the ebpf collector to the main collector.

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@florianl and @osullivandonal it would be nice to have that in: florianl/firepit#17

I've played locally and with that change we can add Firepit to Envoy and reach it via frontend-proxy.

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I assume here we need to update docs, what is the thoughts here? Should we update the opentelemtry.io demo docs?

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@osullivandonal ive added my changes to your PR.
Would you mind taking a look?

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This is looking good and should be good to go!

@osullivandonal back to you 🤓

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This is looking good and should be good to go!

@osullivandonal back to you 🤓
Screenshot 2026-05-11 at 17 35 24

LGTM:

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julianocosta89 commented May 12, 2026

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@puckpuck would you give us your blessing?
It looks good to me, but I have touched the code significantly 😅

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Awesome! 🚀

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I'll merge it later today!
Just waiting to see if anyone else has opinions 🥰

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Nice addition! Profiling is a great signal to have in the demo, and the eBPF collector + Firepit approach keeps things lightweight.

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