[v11.3.x] Update Pyroscope data source for Exlore Profiles (#94832)

Update Pyroscope data source for Exlore Profiles (#94825)

* Update Pyroscope data source for Exlore Profiles

* Update docs/sources/datasources/pyroscope/query-profile-data.md

* Update docs/sources/datasources/pyroscope/query-profile-data.md

(cherry picked from commit e8f23bb2cf)

Co-authored-by: Kim Nylander <104772500+knylander-grafana@users.noreply.github.com>

docs/sources/datasources/pyroscope/_index.md

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ To use profiling data, you should:
 
 - [Configure your application to send profiles](/docs/pyroscope/<PYROSCOPE_VERSION>/configure-client/)
 - [Configure the Grafana Pyroscope data source](./configure-pyroscope-data-source/).
-- [View and query profiling data in Explore](./query-profile-data/)
+- [View and query profiling data using Explore Profiles or the query editor ](./query-profile-data/)
 
 ## Integrate profiles into dashboards
 

docs/sources/datasources/pyroscope/query-profile-data.md

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-description: Use the query editor to explore your Pyroscope data.
+description: Explore your profiling data using Explore Profiles or the Pyroscope query editor.
 keywords:
   - query
   - profiling
@@ -28,6 +28,16 @@ refs:
       destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/explore/
     - pattern: /docs/grafana-cloud/
       destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/explore/
+  explore-profiles:
+    - pattern: /docs/grafana/
+      destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/explore/simplified-exploration/profiles/
+    - pattern: /docs/grafana-cloud/
+      destination: /docs/grafana-cloud/visualizations/simplified-exploration/profiles/
+  explore-profile-install:
+    - pattern: /docs/grafana/
+      destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/explore/simplified-exploration/profiles/access/
+    - pattern: /docs/grafana-cloud/
+      destination: /docs/grafana-cloud/visualizations/simplified-exploration/profiles/access/
   provisioning-data-sources:
     - pattern: /docs/grafana/
       destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/administration/provisioning/#datasources
@@ -37,8 +47,64 @@ refs:
 
 # Query profile data
 
+You can query your profile data using the built-in data source query editor or you can use the open source Grafana Explore Profiles app.
+
+## Explore Profiles
+
+[Explore Profiles](ref:explore-profiles) is a native Grafana application designed to integrate seamlessly with Pyroscope, the open source continuous profiling platform, providing a smooth, queryless experience for browsing and analyzing profiling data.
+
+You can use Explore Profiles in Grafana Cloud or in your own Grafana instance.
+For more information, refer to [Access or install Explore Profiles](ref:explore-profiles-install).
+
+### Use cases
+
+There are several different modes for viewing, analyzing, and comparing profiling data.
+
+The main use cases are the following:
+
+- Proactive: Cutting costs, addressing latency issues, or optimizing memory usage for applications
+- Reactive: Resolving incidents with line-level accuracy or debugging active latency/memory issues
+
+Explore Profiles provides an intuitive interface to specifically support these use cases.
+You get a holistic view of all of your services and how they're functioning, but also the ability to drill down for more targeted root cause analysis.
+
+Explore Profiles offers a convenient platform to analyze profiles and get insights that are impossible to get from using other traditional signals like logs, metrics, or tracing.
+
+{{< youtube id="x9aPw_CbIQc" >}}
+
+{{< docs/play title="the Grafana Play site" url="https://play.grafana.org/a/grafana-pyroscope-app/profiles-explorer" >}}
+
+### Continuous profiling
+
+While code profiling has been a long-standing practice, continuous profiling represents a modern and more advanced approach to performance monitoring.
+
+This technique adds two critical dimensions to traditional profiles:
+
+Time
+: Profiling data is collected _continuously_, providing a time-centric view that allows querying performance data from any point in the past.
+
+Metadata
+: Profiles are enriched with metadata, adding contextual depth to the performance data.
+
+These dimensions, coupled with the detailed nature of performance profiles, make continuous profiling a uniquely valuable tool.
+
+### Flame graphs
+
+<!-- vale Grafana.We = NO -->
+
+Flame graphs help you visualize resource allocation and performance bottlenecks, and you even get suggested recommendations and performance fixes via AI-driven flame graph analysis, as well as line-level insights from our GitHub integration.
+
+<!-- vale Grafana.We = YES -->
+
+On views with a flame graph, you can use **Explain flame graph** to provide an AI flame graph analysis that explains the performance bottleneck, root cause, and recommended fix.
+For more information, refer to [Flame graph AI](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-applications/profiles/flamegraph-ai/).
+
+## Pyroscope query editor
+
 The Pyroscope data source query editor gives you access to a profile type selector, a label selector, and collapsible options.
 
+Like Explore Profiles, the query editor also provides a flame graph to visualize data.
+
 ![Query editor](/media/docs/pyroscope/query-editor/query-editor.png 'Query editor')
 
 To access the query editor:
@@ -52,9 +118,9 @@ To access the query editor:
    {{< figure src="/media/docs/pyroscope/query-editor/select-profile.png" class="docs-image--no-shadow" max-width="450px" caption="Profile selector" >}}
 
 1. Use the labels selector input to filter by labels. Pyroscope uses similar syntax to Prometheus to filter labels.
-   Refer to [Pyroscope documentation](https://grafana.com/docs/pyroscope/latest/) for available operators and syntax.
+   Refer to [Pyroscope documentation](https://grafana.com/docs/pyroscope/<PYROSCOPE_VERSION>/) for available operators and syntax.
 
-   While the label selector can be left empty to query all profiles without filtering by labels, the profile type or app must be selected for the query to be valid.
+   While the label selector can be left empty to query all profiles without filtering by labels, you must select a profile type or app for the query to be valid.
 
    Grafana doesn't show any data if the profile type or app isn’t selected when a query runs.