.. _neuron-tools:

.. meta::
   :description: Developer tools for profiling, monitoring, and analyzing machine learning workloads on AWS Neuron devices.
   :keywords: AWS Neuron, developer tools, profiler, monitoring, analysis, TensorBoard, visualization, debugging, optimization
   :date-modified: 12/02/2025

Developer Tools
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AWS Neuron provides a comprehensive suite of developer tools for optimizing, monitoring, and debugging machine learning workloads on AWS Inferentia and Trainium accelerators. These tools enable developers to gain deep insights into model performance, system utilization, and hardware behavior to maximize the efficiency of ML applications running on Neuron-enabled instances.

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   .. grid-item-card:: Neuron Explorer
      :link: /tools/neuron-explorer/index
      :link-type: doc
      :class-header: sd-bg-primary sd-text-white
        
      Neuron Explorer is a suite of tools designed to support ML engineers throughout their development journey on AWS Trainium, from model development through debugging, profiling, analysis, and optimization.

   .. grid-item-card:: Neuron Profiler 2.0
      :link: /tools/profiler/neuron-profiler-2-0-beta-user-guide
      :link-type: doc
      :class-header: sd-bg-primary sd-text-white
        
      Neuron Profiler 2.0 offers a user-friendly experience for capturing and analyzing application performance through both high-level system profiles and detailed device-level profiles.

   .. grid-item-card:: Neuron Profiler
      :link: /tools/profiler/neuron-profile-user-guide
      :link-type: doc
      :class-header: sd-bg-primary sd-text-white
        
      The Neuron Profiler is a tool to profile and analyze performance of a ML model compiled with the Neuron compiler and run on NeuronDevices.

   .. grid-item-card:: System Tools
      :link: /tools/neuron-sys-tools/index
      :link-type: doc
      :class-header: sd-bg-primary sd-text-white
        
      Command-line utilities for monitoring, debugging, and managing AWS Neuron devices, including neuron-monitor, neuron-top, neuron-ls, and more.

   .. grid-item-card:: Third Party Tools
      :link: /tools/third-party-solutions
      :link-type: doc
      :class-header: sd-bg-primary sd-text-white
        
      Third-party tools and integrations that support the AWS Neuron development experience, including monitoring, visualization, and optimization solutions.

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   .. grid-item-card:: AP Visualizer
      :link: ap-visualizer/ap-visualizer.html
      :link-type: url
      :class-header: sd-bg-primary sd-text-white
        
      Visualize access patterns of tensors on Neuron devices.

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   .. grid-item-card:: Tutorials
      :link: /tools/tutorials/index
      :link-type: doc
      :class-header: sd-bg-secondary sd-text-white

      Tutorials for how to utilize all Neuron Tools.

   .. grid-item-card:: Release Notes
      :link: /release-notes/components/dev-tools
      :link-type: doc
      :class-header: sd-bg-secondary sd-text-white

      Latest updates, new features, and improvements to Neuron Tools and Neuron Explorer.

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   Third-party Tools </tools/third-party-solutions>
   Tutorials </tools/tutorials/index>
   Release Notes </release-notes/components/dev-tools>
