GStreamer Conference 2026

Always-On Tracing: Using GStreamer's Tracing API as a Production Profiler

10 Oct 2026, 15:15

20m

Impact Hub Prague

Room 1

Speaker

Sergei Kovalev

Description

At Pexip, we run a custom GstTracer in production as an always-on profiler that measures per-element CPU to drive our capacity planning. This talk covers why we chose the Tracing API over pad probes, and how we made the hooks light enough to leave on in production.

Speaker Bio

I'm from the media team at Pexip