# Working with profiling groups
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A *profiling group* is a set of applications that are profiled together as a unit. Application data is sent by the Amazon CodeGuru Profiler profiling agent to a single profile group. Data from all applications in a profiling group are aggregated and analyzed together. 

You manage profiling groups from the **Profiling groups** page in the [CodeGuru Profiler console](https://console.aws.amazon.com/codeguru/profiler/). The page provides a list of your profiling groups and the status. You can also create or delete a profiling group. When you select a profiling group, you can explore your profiling data by using different [visualizations](working-with-visualizations.md). 



**Topics**
+ [Creating a profiling group](working-with-profiling-groups-create.md)
+ [Deleting a profiling group](working-with-profiling-groups-delete.md)

# Creating a profiling group
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Follow the steps in [Setting up CodeGuru Profiler](setting-up.md) to create a profiling group, set permissions, and add CodeGuru Profiler profiling agent dependencies and startup code to your application.

# Deleting a profiling group
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When you delete a profiling group, the profiling group and recommendations reports are deleted. Application data in the profiling group will be inaccessible.

**To delete a profiling group**

1. In the navigation pane on the left, choose **Profiling groups**.

1. Select the profiling group to delete.

1. Choose **Actions**, **Delete profiling group**. 

1. On the confirmation page, choose **Delete** to delete the profiling group.

After you've deleted your profiling group, remove the CodeGuru Profiler profiling agent code from either the Java or Python applications in the profiling group. You can also modify the code to send data to a different profiling group. 

**Note**  
To stop being billed for CodeGuru Profiler and to avoid future charges, you must delete all profiling groups.