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Two powerful tools for viewing Python app performance stats

Python’s built-in profiling tools give you binary-format trace files, “.pstats” files, that are not the easiest things to get useful reports from. Two programs, the long-standing “snakeviz” and the recently unveiled “profiling-explorer”, let you deep-dive this performance data through interactive web interfaces. In snakeviz’s case, you can generate flame graphs to get at-a-glance understanding of what’s taking so much time in your program.

May 5, 2026 5 mins

Python