diff --git a/do.sh b/do.sh
index 3aef3c0b..fae9c434 100755
--- a/do.sh
+++ b/do.sh
@@ -287,6 +287,15 @@ _has_license() {
   echo $(grep -P 'Copyright \d\d\d\d The Vouch Proxy Authors' ${FILE})
 }
 
+profile() {
+  echo "for profiling to work you may need uncomment the code in main.go"
+  build
+  ./vouch-proxy -profile
+  go tool pprof -http=0.0.0.0:19091 http://0.0.0.0:9090/debug/pprof/profile?seconds=10
+
+}
+
+
 usage() {
    cat <<EOF
    usage:
@@ -299,6 +308,7 @@ usage() {
      $0 test [./pkg_test.go]   - run go tests (defaults to all tests)
      $0 test_logging           - test the logging output
      $0 coverage               - coverage report
+     $0 profile                - go pprof tools
      $0 bug_report domain.com  - print config file removing secrets and each provided domain
      $0 gogo [gocmd]           - run, build, any go cmd
      $0 stats                  - simple metrics (lines of code in project, number of go files)
@@ -315,7 +325,7 @@ EOF
 ARG=$1;
 
 case "$ARG" in
-   'run'|'build'|'dbuild'|'drun'|'install'|'test'|'goget'|'gogo'|'watch'|'gobuildstatic'|'coverage'|'stats'|'usage'|'bug_report'|'test_logging'|'license')
+   'run'|'build'|'dbuild'|'drun'|'install'|'test'|'goget'|'gogo'|'watch'|'gobuildstatic'|'coverage'|'stats'|'usage'|'bug_report'|'test_logging'|'license'|'profile')
    shift
    $ARG $*
    ;;
diff --git a/main.go b/main.go
index ee5ee325..742706bf 100644
--- a/main.go
+++ b/main.go
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ import (
 	"strconv"
 	"time"
 
+	// "net/http/pprof"
+
 	"github.com/gorilla/mux"
 	"go.uber.org/zap"
 
@@ -58,6 +60,7 @@ var (
 	logger    *zap.SugaredLogger
 	fastlog   *zap.Logger
 	help      = flag.Bool("help", false, "show usage")
+	// doProfile = flag.Bool("profile", false, "run profiler at /debug/pprof")
 )
 
 // fwdToZapWriter allows us to use the zap.Logger as our http.Server ErrorLog
@@ -147,6 +150,11 @@ func main() {
 	// https://golangcode.com/serve-static-assets-using-the-mux-router/
 	muxR.PathPrefix(staticDir).Handler(http.StripPrefix(staticDir, http.FileServer(http.Dir(sPath))))
 
+	//
+	// if *doProfile {
+	// 	addProfilingHandlers(muxR)
+	// }
+
 	srv := &http.Server{
 		Handler: muxR,
 		Addr:    listen,
@@ -171,3 +179,18 @@ func checkTCPPortAvailable(listen string) {
 		logger.Error(err)
 	}
 }
+
+// if you'd like to enable profiling uncomment these
+// func addProfilingHandlers(muxR *mux.Router) {
+// 	// https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47452471/pprof-profile-with-julienschmidtrouter-and-benchmarks-not-profiling-handler
+// 	logger.Debugf("profiling routes added at http://%s:%d/debug/pprof/", cfg.Cfg.Listen, cfg.Cfg.Port)
+// 	muxR.HandleFunc("/debug/pprof/", pprof.Index)
+// 	muxR.HandleFunc("/debug/pprof/cmdline", pprof.Cmdline)
+// 	muxR.HandleFunc("/debug/pprof/profile", pprof.Profile)
+// 	muxR.HandleFunc("/debug/pprof/symbol", pprof.Symbol)
+// 	muxR.HandleFunc("/debug/pprof/trace", pprof.Trace)
+// 	muxR.Handle("/debug/pprof/goroutine", pprof.Handler("goroutine"))
+// 	muxR.Handle("/debug/pprof/heap", pprof.Handler("heap"))
+// 	muxR.Handle("/debug/pprof/threadcreate", pprof.Handler("threadcreate"))
+// 	muxR.Handle("/debug/pprof/block", pprof.Handler("block"))
+// }