Workers profiling
Find expensive functions or memory allocations in deployed code and come up with ways to fix them.
Retrieve the docs
Start with the production profiling guide to understand how Workers and Durable Objects profiling works.
Profiling steps
- Identify the symptom and affected workload: CPU usage, latency, allocation pressure, or memory growth.
- Confirm the account, Worker, environment, and deployed version with the user.
- For a Durable Object, also confirm its owning Worker, namespace, and instance.
- Choose CPU or heap profiling from the current guide's supported types and meanings.
Where possible, use the cf CLI to capture profiles. If the user requests cf, inspect the installed version's command help and schema where available.
If cf isn't available, consider prompting the user whether they would like to install it.
The profiling API will return a pprof file which you can analyze directly, or using appropriate tools like Go's pprof utility.
Inspect the evidence
- Read the pprof file and analyse it for hotspots
- Map hotspots to functions and source locations when evidence supports it; report missing symbols or source mappings.
- If filenames and function names are pointing at the generated JavaScript, consider suggesting to the user to enable source maps and re-do the profiling.
Optimise
Propose the smallest code change supported by the capture which resolves the issues identified.
Report findings
Return a concise report with:
- Evidence for each finding: file, function, source location, and metric with units, where available.
- The smallest actionable change and how to check its effect.
