grafana / grafana/pyroscope

How to use profilecli to send ebpf profiles of a process to pyroscope server

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Description

Hi,
Prior to version 1, I was able to use the following commands to run both the pyroscope server and client/agent to collect and see ebpf profiles of a process
```shell
# Step 1
# Run server
nohup ./pyroscope server --storage-path /tmp/pyro &

# Step 2
# Run agent
sudo env PYROSCOPE_APPLICATION_NAME=app9 ./pyroscope connect --spy-name ebpfspy --pid `pgrep app9`
```
Now the agent is `profilecli` and pyroscope executable doesn't have agent commands, how do I do Step 2 mentioned above?
I have gone through the documentation [here](https://github.com/grafana/pyroscope/tree/main/examples/ebpf) but can't really figure out how to do Step 2?

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Research direction

The issue points to examples/ebpf; start there and inspect the current profilecli usage alongside its command help. Reproduce the server from Step 1 and verify the documented agent invocation against a target process. Done means the equivalent of Step 2 is documented clearly for sending eBPF profiles to the Pyroscope server.

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Assessment

Tech stack
linux
Domain
documentation, observability
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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