profiling

type Config struct {
	// Used to tag the profile in some manner. Its meaning depends on how it is used
	// by the dumpers implementations.
	Tag string
	// Number of seconds that have to elapse between profiles generation. In other words,
	// each time Frequency seconds elapse, a profiling tick happens and hence the profiles
	// generation.
	Frequency int
	// DebugLevel is used as the second parameter when calling profile.WriteTo to write
	// a profile. NOTE: This affects the format of the profiling output.
	DebugLevel int
	// If true, runs the garbage collector before writing a "heap" profile.
	RunGCBeforeHeapProfile bool
	// Profiles is an array of the names of the profiles that will get generated on
	// each profiling tick.
	// Available values for each element:
	// "goroutine", "threadcreate", "heap", "block", "mutex", "trace", "cpu"
	Profiles []string
}

type Dumper interface {
	// Prepares the Dumper before any profiling tick takes place.
	Prepare() error
	// Dumps the profiling data to some destination.
	// timestamp - string containing the time where the profiling tick begun executing,
	//             in the format yyyy-MM-dd_mmhhss.
	// name - name of the profile that is currently dumping data.
	Dump(timestamp string, name string) error
	// Releases any resources associated with this Dumper.
	Release() error
}