# Troubleshooting Performance

Troubleshooting Performance Issues or Memory leaks within running services can be a complex task. Luckily, Tarmac uses the native Go tooling to create profiling snapshots of a running instance.

PProf is a Go tool for capturing and visualizing profiling data. Tarmac uses the `net/http/pprof` package to make PProf available via HTTP end-points.

By default, all PProf end-points are disabled, preventing unauthorized use of PProf (which itself can affect performance). To enable PProf, set the Configuration value of `enable_pprof` to `true`. Using a distributed configuration service such as Consul, users can change this value live without restarting the application instance.

Follow the [Configuration guide](https://tarmac.gitbook.io/tarmac-framework/running-tarmac/configuration) for more details on configuring Tarmac.

Once enabled, users can use the following end-points to capture profiling data.

| URI                         | Description                                                     |
| --------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `/debug/pprof`              | PProf Index linking to individual profiling pages               |
| `/debug/pprof/allocs`       | A sampling of all past memory allocations                       |
| `/debug/pprof/block`        | Stack traces that led to blocking on synchronization primitives |
| `/debug/pprof/cmdline`      | The command line invocation of the current program              |
| `/debug/pprof/goroutine`    | Stack traces of all current goroutines                          |
| `/debug/pprof/heap`         | A sampling of memory allocations of live objects                |
| `/debug/pprof/mutex`        | Stack traces of holders of contended mutexes                    |
| `/debug/pprof/profile`      | CPU Profile                                                     |
| `/debug/pprof/threadcreate` | Stack traces that led to the creation of new OS threads         |
| `/debug/pprof/trace`        | A trace of execution of the current program                     |

More information about PProf can be found via the [official documentation](https://pkg.go.dev/net/http/pprof).