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Profiling Capture Configuration

Data artifactObservability & EvaluationObservability & Evaluationarc:ProfilingCaptureConfig

A capture specification selecting trace targets (accelerator API, annotations, OS runtime), memory-usage tracking, CPU sampling, context-switch tracing and output location for a profiling run.

Responsibility. Determines which events a profiling run records and at what cost.

Also known as: nsys profile flags

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GPU System Profiler Ch4.4

Design guidance

SHOULD disable context-switch tracing for most inference workloads because it bloats reports without adding value.

Classification

Technologies: NVIDIA Nsight Systems

Sources

Ch4.4: T. Nguyen, "Performance Profiling and Optimization," in Mastering Agentic AI Systems: Guide for the NVIDIA NCP-AAI Exam, 1st ed. 2026, ch. 4.4. ISBN: 9798244538229.