Each Perfetto bar maps to one GitHub Actions job; Chrome traces break nesting

DanielLockyer · x · 2026-11-02

Follow-up on the Perfetto trick: each bar in the resulting timeline is one GitHub Actions job, and clicking it expands the individual steps within — handy for finding CI bottlenecks.

One caveat: asking the agent for a Google Chrome-compatible trace file broke the nesting, so stick with the .pftrace format for Perfetto.

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