This is a list of performance analysis tools for use in software development.
The following tools work based on log files that can be generated from various systems.
TimeToPic visualizes a log file. If system has logging facility, its output can be shown on visual timeline. Developer can see from visualization what is happening on log. Can be used for code and "logic" level analysis. There are version for Windows and Linux. Supports log sizes up to 1 Gigabyte.
time (Unix) - can be used to determine the run time of a program, separately counting user time vs. system time, and CPU time vs. clock time.
The following tools work for multiple languages or binaries.
C and C++
Allinea MAP performance profiler supporting Linux platforms
AppDynamics Application Performance Management solution for C/C++ applications via SDK
IBM Rational Purify
AQtime Pro Performance profiler and memory allocation debugger can be integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio, Embarcadero RAD Studio or can run as a stand-alone application.
MTuner Memory profiliing, analysis and leak detection tool. Supports multiple platforms.
Intel Parallel Studio contains Parallel Amplifier, which tunes both serial and parallel programs. It also includes Parallel Inspector, which detects races, deadlocks and memory errors. Parallel Composer includes codecov, a command line coverage tool.
Parasoft Insure++ Provides a graphical tool that displays and animates memory allocations in real time to expose memory blowout, fragmentation, overuse, bottlenecks and leaks.
Visual Studio Team System Profiler is Microsoft's commercial profiler
VSXu has a built-in open source profiler for collecting data, call graphs with a generic data collection back end
JConsole is the profiler which comes with the Java Development Kit
JProfiler
JRockit Mission Control, a profiler with low overhead.
Netbeans Profiler, a profiler integrated into the NetBeans IDE (internally uses jvisualvm profiler)
Pinpoint is an open source APM (Application Performance Management) tool for large-scale distributed systems written in Java.
Plumbr, Java application performance monitoring with automated root cause detection. Links memory leaks, GC inefficiency, slow database and external web service calls, locked threads, and other performance problems to the line in source code that causes them.
Takipi, production debugging, profiling and exceptions tracking.
VisualVM is a visual tool integrating several commandline JDK tools and lightweight profiling capabilities. It is bundled with the Java Development Kit since version 6, update 7.
Firebug is a Firefox plug-in for web development, also has a profiler for JavaScript.
Microsoft Visual Studio AJAX Profiling Extensions is a free profiling tool for JavaScript by Microsoft Research.
CLR Profiler is a free memory profiler provided by Microsoft for CLR applications.
GlowCode is a performance and memory profiler for .NET applications using C# and other .NET languages. It identifies time-intensive functions and detects memory leaks and errors in native, managed and mixed Windows x64 and x86 applications.
Visual Studio
Dbg
Xdebug is a PHP extension which provides debugging and profiling capabilities.
