FR: Public interface / function for reporting

[coxley]

Summary

Hey folks!

We collect remote profiles quite often to send into the CLI. I've aggregated most of this workflow into our operational tooling, but the missing pieces are being able to generate an SVG/PNG/etc report from the raw data.

Now obviously I can shell out to go tool pprof — and will — but wondering if there's a reason the reporter is hidden behind internal? Would be better (for my situation) to pass around an io.Reader vs. piping the data between processes.

Thanks for your time either way. :)

[coxley]

FWIW, this is my current hack around this in the meantime: https://gist.github.com/coxley/a0609812115ff425c06d58dc21fda289

[aalexand]

@coxley Not the answer you'd want but:

Maintaining API surfaces is expensive, we intentionally limit what we expose as public API and we don't plan to expand it in the near future.