From 1e1c5905d7b0db874b2df2ba838e3ab163e8f02a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lukas Larsson <lukas@erlang.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 08:55:57 +0200
Subject: system: Add External OSS tools section to profiling guilde

---
 system/doc/efficiency_guide/profiling.xml | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

(limited to 'system')

diff --git a/system/doc/efficiency_guide/profiling.xml b/system/doc/efficiency_guide/profiling.xml
index bf50a03fa6..f661abf285 100644
--- a/system/doc/efficiency_guide/profiling.xml
+++ b/system/doc/efficiency_guide/profiling.xml
@@ -65,6 +65,20 @@
 
     <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>
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