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Profiling for Wazero. Version 0.2.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-25.
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Profiling for Wazero
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- wzprof
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Project history and usage
wzprof is a pprof-compatible profiler for WebAssembly programs running on the wazero runtime. It is a niche developer tool, but a meaningful one for the Go and WebAssembly packaging ecosystem because it brings familiar Go profiling workflows to guest Wasm modules.
Project history
The project README describes wzprof as a profiler built on top of wazero, able to collect CPU and memory profiles while WebAssembly modules execute. It was presented publicly in the WebAssembly and cloud-native conference circuit, including Civo Navigate Europe 2024 and KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2024.
wzprof sits on top of wazero's trajectory as a pure-Go, zero-dependency WebAssembly runtime. Wazero's own history page says it began as Takeshi Yoneda's hobby project in mid-2020 and became a Tetrate-sponsored top-level project in late 2021; wzprof builds on that runtime rather than implementing a separate Wasm engine.
How it is used
Users can run wzprof as a CLI against a Wasm binary to emit CPU or memory profile files, then inspect them with the standard go tool pprof workflow. Library users can integrate the profilers with a wazero.Runtime through wazero's experimental function-listener hooks.
The tool supports pprof-style CPU samples, on-CPU time, memory allocation tracing for selected allocation functions, DWARF symbolization for C/Rust/Zig-style modules, and special stack handling for Go 1.21+ and debug-symbol CPython 3.11 guests.
Why package nerds care
wzprof matters to package nerds because it is a small example of WebAssembly's tooling stack becoming more like native language ecosystems: not just runtimes and compilers, but profilers, symbols, heap views, and workflows that integrate with existing developer muscle memory.
Timeline
- 2020: wazero begins as a hobby project, according to wazero's official history.
- 2021: Tetrate sponsors wazero as a top-level project.
- 2023: wzprof publishes early releases and documents pprof-compatible CPU and memory profiling for WebAssembly.
- 2024: wzprof is presented at Civo Navigate Europe and KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India.
Related projects
- wazero is the underlying Go WebAssembly runtime. google/pprof is the profile visualization and analysis tool whose workflow wzprof targets.
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security posture
Risk level: green
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
Risk classifier
green risk · low confidence · appliance
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- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals
Signals
- metadata:no-higher-risk-signals
Install behavior
- No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
- Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 12 platform targets.
- Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.
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Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
wzprof | cli | global executable |
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Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-08-04
manager version0.2.0
manager updated2026-07-25
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detectedv0.2.0
https://github.com/dispatchrun/wzprof
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:wzprof |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.2.0 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Package manager page | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/wzprof |
| Homepage | https://github.com/dispatchrun/wzprof |
| Repository | https://github.com/dispatchrun/wzprof |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Source archive | https://github.com/dispatchrun/wzprof/archive/refs/tags/v0.2.0.tar.gz |
| Last updated | 2026-07-25T22:40:22+02:00 |
| Pulse | updated |
| Build dependencies | go |
| Bottle | available (on arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, monterey, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | not defined |
| Service | none declared |
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Source database details
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | wzprof |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Head Version | HEAD |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
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