SPX, which stands for Simple Profiling eXtension, is just another profiling extension for PHP. It differentiates itself from other similar extensions as being totally free and confined to your infrastructure (i.e. no data leaks to a SaaS). Very simple to use: just set an environment variable (command line) or switch on a radio button (web request) to profile your script. Thus, you are free of manually instrumenting your code (Ctrl-C a long running command line script is even supported). Using a dedicated browser extension or command line launcher. Multi metrics capable: 22 are currently supported (various time & memory metrics, included files, objects in use, I/O...). Able to collect data without losing context. For example Xhprof (and potentially its forks) aggregates data per caller / callee pairs, which implies the loss of the full call stack and forbids timeline or Flamegraph based analysis.

Features

  • Requries x86-64 or ARM64
  • For GNU/Linux, macOS or FreeBSD
  • Timeline (scale to millions of function calls)
  • Flat profile
  • Flamegraph
  • Enable / configure profiling for the current browser session

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License

GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3)

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