Go Observability & pprof — Memory Leaks, CPU Profiling & GODEBUG

Prerequisite: This is Part 10 of the System Design Masterclass. Previous parts built the architecture — this part teaches you how to see inside a running system and diagnose production performance issues. Answer-first: Go’s built-in pprof profiler provides CPU sampling, heap allocation analysis, goroutine stack inspection, and blocking profiler — all available as HTTP endpoints in running production services with minimal overhead. Heap diff between two snapshots is the fastest way to identify memory leaks. ...

June 18, 2026 · 9 min · Tanh