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authorLukas Larsson <[email protected]>2017-10-19 08:55:57 +0200
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<p>The tools are further described in
<seealso marker="#profiling_tools">Tools</seealso>.</p>
+
+ <p>There are also several open source tools outside of Erlang/OTP
+ that can be used to help profiling. Some of them are:</p>
+
+ <list type="bulleted">
+ <item><url href="https://github.com/isacssouza/erlgrind">erlgrind</url>
+ can be used to visualize fprof data in kcachegrind.</item>
+ <item><url href="https://github.com/proger/eflame">eflame</url>
+ is an alternative to fprof that displays the profiling output as a flamegraph.</item>
+ <item><url href="https://ferd.github.io/recon/index.html">recon</url>
+ is a collection of Erlang profiling and debugging tools.
+ This tool comes with an accompanying E-book called
+ <url href="https://www.erlang-in-anger.com/">Erlang in Anger</url>.</item>
+ </list>
</section>
<section>