Mastering Go - Second Edition

Profiling an HTTP server

As you learned in Chapter 11, Code Testing, Optimization, and Profiling, there is a standard Go package named net/http/pprof, which should be used when you want to profile a Go application with its own HTTP server. To that end, importing net/http/pprof will install various handlers under the /debug/pprof/ URL. You will see more on this in a short while. For now, it is enough to remember that the net/http/pprof package should be used to profile web applications with an HTTP server, whereas the runtime/pprof standard Go package should be used to profile all other kinds of applications.

Note that if your profiler works using the http://localhost:8080 address, you will automatically get support for the following web links: ...