/sentry-go-sdk

Profiling — Sentry Go SDK

⚠️ Profiling is not available for Go.

Profiling support was added in v0.22.0 as an alpha feature and removed in v0.31.0 (breaking change). As of v0.43.0, ProfilesSampleRate does not exist in ClientOptions and the field will not compile.

Current Status

The Sentry Go SDK does not support transaction-based or continuous profiling. The /platforms/go/profiling/ documentation page returns 404.

// ❌ This does NOT compile on v0.31.0+
sentry.Init(sentry.ClientOptions{
    EnableTracing:      true,
    TracesSampleRate:   1.0,
    ProfilesSampleRate: 1.0,  // unknown field — compile error
})

Alternatives

For Go application profiling, use these standard approaches independently of Sentry:

pprof (stdlib):

import _ "net/http/pprof"

// Exposes /debug/pprof/ on your HTTP server
http.ListenAndServe(":6060", nil)

Continuous profiling services:

• Pyroscope — open-source continuous profiling
• Google Cloud Profiler
• Datadog Continuous Profiler

Check for Future Support

Monitor the sentry-go releases and docs.sentry.io/platforms/go/ for profiling to be re-introduced.