# Examples
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# How Pyroscope works
Pyroscope identifies performance issues in your application by continuously profiling the code.

If you've never used a profiler before, then welcome!

If you are familiar with profiling and flame graphs, then you'll be happy to know that Pyroscope:
- Requires very minimal overhead
- Can store years of perf data down to 10 second granularity
- Uses a unique, inverted flame graph for increased readability

There are two main components that allow Pyroscope to run smoothly and quickly:
## Pyroscope agent
Every .01 seconds, the Pyroscope agent wraps around your Python, Ruby, or Go application to poll the stacktrace and calculate which function is consuming your CPU resources.
![agent_server_diagram_10](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/23323466/153685751-0aac3cd6-bbc1-4ab4-8350-8f4dc7f7c193.svg)