Pprof doesn't tell you if something was leaked aka still around. I fixed a leak recently because of misuse of a slice with code like slice = append(slice[1:],

Pprof doesn't tell you if something was leaked aka still around. I fixed a leak recently because of misuse of a slice with code like slice = append(slice[1:], newElement) I only figured it out by looking at the pprof heap endpoint output and noticed there were multiple duplicate entries.