diff --git a/quickwit/Cargo.lock b/quickwit/Cargo.lock
index 0d58253ef34..2d0b51d90b3 100644
--- a/quickwit/Cargo.lock
+++ b/quickwit/Cargo.lock
@@ -1116,6 +1116,12 @@ version = "0.6.7"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "e1e5f035d16fc623ae5f74981db80a439803888314e3a555fd6f04acd51a3205"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "bytemuck"
+version = "1.16.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "78834c15cb5d5efe3452d58b1e8ba890dd62d21907f867f383358198e56ebca5"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "byteorder"
 version = "1.5.0"
@@ -1556,6 +1562,15 @@ version = "0.8.6"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "06ea2b9bc92be3c2baa9334a323ebca2d6f074ff852cd1d7b11064035cd3868f"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "cpp_demangle"
+version = "0.4.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "7e8227005286ec39567949b33df9896bcadfa6051bccca2488129f108ca23119"
+dependencies = [
+ "cfg-if",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "cpufeatures"
 version = "0.2.12"
@@ -1881,6 +1896,15 @@ version = "0.3.13"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "f578e8e2c440e7297e008bb5486a3a8a194775224bbc23729b0dbdfaeebf162e"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "debugid"
+version = "0.8.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "bef552e6f588e446098f6ba40d89ac146c8c7b64aade83c051ee00bb5d2bc18d"
+dependencies = [
+ "uuid",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "der"
 version = "0.6.1"
@@ -2345,6 +2369,18 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys 0.52.0",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "findshlibs"
+version = "0.10.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "40b9e59cd0f7e0806cca4be089683ecb6434e602038df21fe6bf6711b2f07f64"
+dependencies = [
+ "cc",
+ "lazy_static",
+ "libc",
+ "winapi 0.3.9",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "finl_unicode"
 version = "1.2.0"
@@ -3220,6 +3256,24 @@ version = "0.2.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "64e9829a50b42bb782c1df523f78d332fe371b10c661e78b7a3c34b0198e9fac"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "inferno"
+version = "0.11.19"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "321f0f839cd44a4686e9504b0a62b4d69a50b62072144c71c68f5873c167b8d9"
+dependencies = [
+ "ahash 0.8.11",
+ "indexmap 2.1.0",
+ "is-terminal",
+ "itoa",
+ "log",
+ "num-format",
+ "once_cell",
+ "quick-xml 0.26.0",
+ "rgb",
+ "str_stack",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "inherent"
 version = "1.0.11"
@@ -4146,6 +4200,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "regex",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "nix"
+version = "0.26.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "598beaf3cc6fdd9a5dfb1630c2800c7acd31df7aaf0f565796fba2b53ca1af1b"
+dependencies = [
+ "bitflags 1.3.2",
+ "cfg-if",
+ "libc",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "no-std-net"
 version = "0.6.0"
@@ -4212,6 +4277,16 @@ version = "0.1.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "51d515d32fb182ee37cda2ccdcb92950d6a3c2893aa280e540671c2cd0f3b1d9"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "num-format"
+version = "0.4.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a652d9771a63711fd3c3deb670acfbe5c30a4072e664d7a3bf5a9e1056ac72c3"
+dependencies = [
+ "arrayvec 0.7.4",
+ "itoa",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "num-integer"
 version = "0.1.46"
@@ -5192,6 +5267,27 @@ version = "0.2.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "439ee305def115ba05938db6eb1644ff94165c5ab5e9420d1c1bcedbba909391"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "pprof"
+version = "0.13.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "ef5c97c51bd34c7e742402e216abdeb44d415fbe6ae41d56b114723e953711cb"
+dependencies = [
+ "backtrace",
+ "cfg-if",
+ "findshlibs",
+ "inferno",
+ "libc",
+ "log",
+ "nix",
+ "once_cell",
+ "parking_lot",
+ "smallvec",
+ "symbolic-demangle",
+ "tempfile",
+ "thiserror",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "ppv-lite86"
 version = "0.2.17"
@@ -5528,6 +5624,15 @@ version = "1.2.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "a1d01941d82fa2ab50be1e79e6714289dd7cde78eba4c074bc5a4374f650dfe0"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "quick-xml"
+version = "0.26.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "7f50b1c63b38611e7d4d7f68b82d3ad0cc71a2ad2e7f61fc10f1328d917c93cd"
+dependencies = [
+ "memchr",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "quick-xml"
 version = "0.29.0"
@@ -6345,6 +6450,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "once_cell",
  "opentelemetry",
  "percent-encoding",
+ "pprof",
  "prost",
  "prost-types",
  "quickwit-actors",
@@ -6787,6 +6893,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "zeroize",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "rgb"
+version = "0.8.37"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "05aaa8004b64fd573fc9d002f4e632d51ad4f026c2b5ba95fcb6c2f32c2c47d8"
+dependencies = [
+ "bytemuck",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "ring"
 version = "0.16.20"
@@ -7888,6 +8003,12 @@ version = "1.1.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "a2eb9349b6444b326872e140eb1cf5e7c522154d69e7a0ffb0fb81c06b37543f"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "str_stack"
+version = "0.1.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "9091b6114800a5f2141aee1d1b9d6ca3592ac062dc5decb3764ec5895a47b4eb"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "string_cache"
 version = "0.8.7"
@@ -7939,6 +8060,29 @@ version = "2.5.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "81cdd64d312baedb58e21336b31bc043b77e01cc99033ce76ef539f78e965ebc"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "symbolic-common"
+version = "12.9.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "89d2aef0f60f62e38c472334148758afbd570ed78d20be622692e5ebfec3734f"
+dependencies = [
+ "debugid",
+ "memmap2",
+ "stable_deref_trait",
+ "uuid",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "symbolic-demangle"
+version = "12.9.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "1719d1292eac816cdd3fdad12b22315624b7ce6a7bacb267a3a27fccfd286b48"
+dependencies = [
+ "cpp_demangle",
+ "rustc-demangle",
+ "symbolic-common",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "syn"
 version = "1.0.109"
diff --git a/quickwit/Cargo.toml b/quickwit/Cargo.toml
index 0f1778a2309..84919ccb453 100644
--- a/quickwit/Cargo.toml
+++ b/quickwit/Cargo.toml
@@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ postcard = { version = "1.0.4", features = [
 ], default-features = false }
 predicates = "3"
 prettyplease = "0.2.0"
+pprof = { version = "0.13", features = ["flamegraph"] }
 proc-macro2 = "1.0.50"
 prometheus = { version = "0.13", features = ["process"] }
 proptest = "1"
diff --git a/quickwit/quickwit-cli/Cargo.toml b/quickwit/quickwit-cli/Cargo.toml
index d5c2b3f6acc..aeb14866f85 100644
--- a/quickwit/quickwit-cli/Cargo.toml
+++ b/quickwit/quickwit-cli/Cargo.toml
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ quickwit-storage = { workspace = true, features = ["testsuite"] }
 [features]
 jemalloc = ["dep:tikv-jemalloc-ctl", "dep:tikv-jemallocator"]
 ci-test = []
+pprof = ["quickwit-serve/pprof"]
 openssl-support = ["openssl-probe"]
 # Requires to enable tokio unstable via RUSTFLAGS="--cfg tokio_unstable"
 tokio-console = ["console-subscriber", "quickwit-common/named_tasks"]
diff --git a/quickwit/quickwit-serve/Cargo.toml b/quickwit/quickwit-serve/Cargo.toml
index dafb56ca6ae..22db2523d05 100644
--- a/quickwit/quickwit-serve/Cargo.toml
+++ b/quickwit/quickwit-serve/Cargo.toml
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ mime_guess = { workspace = true }
 once_cell = { workspace = true }
 opentelemetry = { workspace = true }
 percent-encoding = { workspace = true }
+pprof = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 prost = { workspace = true }
 prost-types = { workspace = true }
 regex = { workspace = true }
@@ -91,3 +92,9 @@ quickwit-opentelemetry = { workspace = true, features = ["testsuite"] }
 quickwit-proto = { workspace = true, features = ["testsuite"] }
 quickwit-search = { workspace = true, features = ["testsuite"] }
 quickwit-storage = { workspace = true, features = ["testsuite"] }
+
+[features]
+pprof = [
+  "dep:pprof"
+]
+
diff --git a/quickwit/quickwit-serve/src/lib.rs b/quickwit/quickwit-serve/src/lib.rs
index 22c6730fc43..b56d89a0da2 100644
--- a/quickwit/quickwit-serve/src/lib.rs
+++ b/quickwit/quickwit-serve/src/lib.rs
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ mod metrics_api;
 mod node_info_handler;
 mod openapi;
 mod otlp_api;
+mod pprof;
 mod rate_modulator;
 mod rest;
 mod rest_api_response;
diff --git a/quickwit/quickwit-serve/src/pprof.rs b/quickwit/quickwit-serve/src/pprof.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..231aa39b26d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/quickwit/quickwit-serve/src/pprof.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+// Copyright (C) 2024 Quickwit, Inc.
+//
+// Quickwit is offered under the AGPL v3.0 and as commercial software.
+// For commercial licensing, contact us at hello@quickwit.io.
+//
+// AGPL:
+// This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+// it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
+// published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
+// License, or (at your option) any later version.
+//
+// This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+// GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+//
+// You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+// along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+use warp::Filter;
+
+/// pprof/start to start cpu profiling
+/// pprof/stop to stop cpu profiling and return a flamegraph
+#[cfg(not(feature = "pprof"))]
+pub fn pprof_routes() -> impl Filter<Extract = impl warp::Reply, Error = warp::Rejection> + Clone {
+    let start_profiler = {
+        warp::path!("pprof" / "start").map(move || {
+            warp::reply::with_status(
+                "not compiled with pprof feature",
+                warp::http::StatusCode::BAD_REQUEST,
+            )
+        })
+    };
+
+    let stop_profiler = {
+        warp::path!("pprof" / "stop").map(move || {
+            warp::reply::with_status(
+                "not compiled with pprof feature",
+                warp::http::StatusCode::BAD_REQUEST,
+            )
+        })
+    };
+
+    start_profiler.or(stop_profiler)
+}
+
+/// pprof/start to start cpu profiling
+/// pprof/stop to stop cpu profiling and return a flamegraph
+#[cfg(feature = "pprof")]
+pub fn pprof_routes() -> impl Filter<Extract = impl warp::Reply, Error = warp::Rejection> + Clone {
+    use std::sync::{Arc, Mutex};
+
+    use pprof::ProfilerGuard;
+    use warp::reply::Reply;
+    let profiler_guard: Arc<Mutex<Option<ProfilerGuard<'_>>>> = Arc::new(Mutex::new(None));
+
+    let start_profiler = {
+        let profiler_guard = Arc::clone(&profiler_guard);
+        warp::path!("pprof" / "start").map(move || {
+            let mut guard = profiler_guard.lock().unwrap();
+            if guard.is_none() {
+                *guard = Some(pprof::ProfilerGuard::new(100).unwrap());
+                warp::reply::with_status("CPU profiling started", warp::http::StatusCode::OK)
+            } else {
+                warp::reply::with_status(
+                    "CPU profiling is already running",
+                    warp::http::StatusCode::BAD_REQUEST,
+                )
+            }
+        })
+    };
+
+    let stop_profiler = {
+        let profiler_guard = Arc::clone(&profiler_guard);
+        warp::path!("pprof" / "stop").map(move || {
+            let profiler_guard = Arc::clone(&profiler_guard);
+            get_flamegraph(profiler_guard)
+        })
+    };
+
+    fn get_flamegraph(profiler_guard: Arc<Mutex<Option<ProfilerGuard>>>) -> impl warp::Reply {
+        let mut guard = profiler_guard.lock().unwrap();
+        if let Some(profiler) = guard.take() {
+            if let Ok(report) = profiler.report().build() {
+                let mut buffer = Vec::new();
+                if report.flamegraph(&mut buffer).is_ok() {
+                    return warp::reply::with_header(buffer, "Content-Type", "image/svg+xml")
+                        .into_response();
+                }
+            }
+            warp::reply::with_status(
+                "Failed to generate flamegraph",
+                warp::http::StatusCode::INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR,
+            )
+            .into_response()
+        } else {
+            warp::reply::with_status(
+                "CPU profiling is not running",
+                warp::http::StatusCode::BAD_REQUEST,
+            )
+            .into_response()
+        }
+    }
+
+    start_profiler.or(stop_profiler)
+}
diff --git a/quickwit/quickwit-serve/src/rest.rs b/quickwit/quickwit-serve/src/rest.rs
index c3e90550865..b97d0fee031 100644
--- a/quickwit/quickwit-serve/src/rest.rs
+++ b/quickwit/quickwit-serve/src/rest.rs
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ use crate::jaeger_api::jaeger_api_handlers;
 use crate::metrics_api::metrics_handler;
 use crate::node_info_handler::node_info_handler;
 use crate::otlp_api::otlp_ingest_api_handlers;
+use crate::pprof::pprof_routes;
 use crate::rest_api_response::{RestApiError, RestApiResponse};
 use crate::search_api::{search_get_handler, search_post_handler, search_stream_handler};
 use crate::template_api::index_template_api_handlers;
@@ -158,6 +159,9 @@ pub(crate) async fn start_rest_server(
         quickwit_services.env_filter_reload_fn.clone(),
     );
 
+    // `/pprof` route.
+    let cpu_pprof_routes = pprof_routes();
+
     // `/api/v1/*` routes.
     let api_v1_root_route = api_v1_routes(quickwit_services.clone());
 
@@ -181,6 +185,7 @@ pub(crate) async fn start_rest_server(
         .or(health_check_routes)
         .or(metrics_routes)
         .or(developer_routes)
+        .or(cpu_pprof_routes)
         .with(request_counter)
         .recover(recover_fn)
         .with(extra_headers)