AL-Flamegraph

This service will generate either so-called folded files or SVG based on .alcpuprofile files from Business Central.

The SVGs are generated using FlameGraph by Brendan Gregg

Quick note: This is made in Typescript by someone who rarely uses Typescript. But you got to start somewhere.

URL : /upload

(Free webservice up at: http(s)://blogapi.sshadows.dk/upload)

Method : POST

Header options :

Set the following header fields to trigger different output.

Header field name	Description	Valid input	Only used for SVGs
filter	Which extentions to filter out from output	string
onlyfolded	Will just return the folded file, if not set then SVG will be generated	true or false
color	Select the color theme for the SVG	(none), hot, blue, aqua	*
title	Sets the title for the SVG	any text intput	*
subtitle	Sets the sub-title for the SVG	any text intput	*
width	Sets the pixel width for the SVG	integer	*
stripfileheader	Removes the initial XML part generate by flamegraph.pl script	true or false	*
flamechart	If set to true, then exports flamechart instead of flamegraph	true or false	*
fromunix	If set, will return the DateTime as Unix Time Stamp, in the response header	UTC DateTime
tounix	If set, will return the DateTime as Unix Time Stamp, in the response header	UTC DateTime

Auth required : NO

Permissions required : None

Data constraints

The .alcpuprofile file in Body.

{
        "nodes": [
        {
            "id": 1,
            "callFrame": {
                "functionName": "OnOpenPage",
                "scriptId": "Page_30",
                "url": "al-preview://allang/Page/30/Page_30.dal",
                "lineNumber": 2541,
                "columnNumber": 8
            },
            "hitCount": 1,
            "children": [
                2
            ],
            "declaringApplication": {
                "appName": "Base Application",
                "appPublisher": "Microsoft",
                "appVersion": "20.0.37253.38230"
            },
            "applicationDefinition": {
                "objectType": "Page",
                "objectName": "Item Card",
                "objectId": 30
            },
            "frameIdentifier": 268519315
        },
        {
            "id": 2,
            ...
}

HTTP example

POST /upload HTTP/1.1
Host: blogapi.sshadows.dk
StripFileHeader: false
color: aqua
width: 1800
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Content-Length: 22

"<file contents here>"

cURL example

curl --location --request POST 'http://blogapi.sshadows.dk/upload' 
--header 'StripFileHeader: false' 
--header 'color: aqua' 
--header 'width: 1800' 
--header 'Content-Type: application/octet-stream' 
--data-binary '@/c:/temp/PerformanceProfile_Session4.alcpuprofile'

Success Response

Code : 200

Content example

{
    Example pending
}