Kineto

[!IMPORTANT] Development in this repository is frozen as of September 24, 2026 while Kineto is upstreamed into PyTorch. Please do not open new pull requests here. See #1571 for the migration timeline and where to submit future changes.

Kineto is a library used in the PyTorch Profiler.

The Kineto project enables:

• performance observability and diagnostics across common ML bottleneck components
• actionable recommendations for common issues
• integration of external system-level profiling tools
• integration with popular visualization platforms and analysis pipelines

The central component of Kineto is Libkineto, a profiling library with special focus on low-overhead GPU timeline tracing.

Libkineto

Libkineto is an in-process profiling library integrated with the PyTorch Profiler. Please refer to the README file in the libkineto folder as well as documentation on the new PyTorch Profiler API.

License

Kineto has a BSD-style license, as found in the LICENSE file.