✨ Add e2e profiling toolchain for heap and CPU analysis

Add comprehensive profiling infrastructure to collect, analyze, and
compare heap and CPU profiles during e2e test execution.

**Features:**
- Automated heap and CPU profile collection from operator-controller and catalogd
- Real-time profile capture every 15 seconds during test execution
- CPU profiling with 10-second sampling windows
- Multi-component profiling with separate analysis for each component
- Prometheus alert tracking integrated with profiling reports
- Side-by-side comparison of different test runs
- Claude Code integration via /e2e-profile command

**Tooling:**
- `collect-profiles.sh`: Port-forward to pprof endpoints and collect heap/CPU dumps
- `analyze-profiles.sh`: Generate detailed analysis with top allocators, growth patterns, and CPU hotspots
- `compare-profiles.sh`: Compare two test runs to identify regressions
- `run-profiled-test.sh`: Orchestrate full profiled test runs
- `e2e-profile.sh`: Main entry point with subcommands (run/analyze/compare)

**Usage:**
```bash
./hack/tools/e2e-profiling/e2e-profile.sh run baseline test-experimental-e2e

./hack/tools/e2e-profiling/e2e-profile.sh analyze baseline

./hack/tools/e2e-profiling/e2e-profile.sh compare baseline optimized
```

**Integration:**
- Claude Code command: `/e2e-profile` for interactive use
- Automatic cleanup of empty profiles from cluster teardown
- Prometheus alert extraction from e2e test summaries
- Detailed markdown reports with memory growth, CPU usage analysis, and recommendations

**Key Implementation Details:**
- Fixed deployment wait to poll until deployments are created before checking availability
- Fixed PID tracking to only wait for CPU profiling jobs, not port-forward processes
- 10-second CPU profiling works correctly with proper wait handling
- Port-forwards remain stable throughout entire test duration

This tooling was essential for identifying memory optimization opportunities
and validating that alert thresholds are correctly calibrated.

🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: tmshort

.claude/commands/e2e-profile.md

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+---
+description: Profile memory and CPU usage during e2e tests and analyze results
+---
+
+# E2E Profiling Plugin
+
+Analyze memory and CPU usage during e2e tests by collecting pprof heap and CPU profiles and generating comprehensive analysis reports.
+
+## Commands
+
+### /e2e-profile run [test-name] [test-target]
+
+Run an e2e test with continuous memory and CPU profiling:
+
+1. Start the specified e2e test (defaults to `make test-experimental-e2e`)
+2. Wait for the operator-controller pod to be ready
+3. Collect heap and CPU profiles every 15 seconds to `./e2e-profiles/[test-name]/`
+4. Continue until the test completes or is interrupted
+5. Generate a summary report with memory and CPU analysis
+
+**Test Targets:**
+- `test-e2e` - Standard e2e tests
+- `test-experimental-e2e` - Experimental e2e tests (default)
+- `test-extension-developer-e2e` - Extension developer e2e tests
+- `test-upgrade-e2e` - Upgrade e2e tests
+- `test-upgrade-experimental-e2e` - Upgrade experimental e2e tests
+
+**Examples:**
+```
+/e2e-profile run baseline
+/e2e-profile run baseline test-e2e
+/e2e-profile run with-caching test-experimental-e2e
+/e2e-profile run upgrade-test test-upgrade-e2e
+```
+
+### /e2e-profile analyze [test-name]
+
+Analyze collected heap profiles for a specific test run:
+
+1. Load all heap profiles from `./e2e-profiles/[test-name]/`
+2. Analyze memory growth patterns
+3. Identify top allocators
+4. Find OpenAPI, JSON, and other hotspots
+5. Generate detailed markdown report
+
+**Example:**
+```
+/e2e-profile analyze baseline
+```
+
+### /e2e-profile compare [test1] [test2]
+
+Compare two test runs to measure the impact of changes:
+
+1. Load profiles from both test runs
+2. Compare peak memory usage
+3. Compare memory growth rates
+4. Identify differences in allocation patterns
+5. Generate side-by-side comparison report with charts
+
+**Example:**
+```
+/e2e-profile compare baseline with-caching
+```
+
+### /e2e-profile collect
+
+Manually collect a single heap profile from the running operator-controller pod:
+
+1. Find the operator-controller pod
+2. Set up port forwarding to pprof endpoint
+3. Download heap profile
+4. Save to `./e2e-profiles/manual/heap-[timestamp].pprof`
+
+**Example:**
+```
+/e2e-profile collect
+```
+
+## Task Breakdown
+
+When you invoke this command, I will:
+
+1. **Setup Phase**
+   - Create `./e2e-profiles/[test-name]` directory
+   - Verify `make test-experimental-e2e` is available
+   - Check kubectl access to the cluster
+
+2. **Collection Phase**
+   - Start the e2e test in background
+   - Monitor for pod readiness
+   - Set up port forwarding to pprof endpoint (port 6060)
+   - Collect heap profiles every 15 seconds
+   - Save profiles with sequential naming (heap0.pprof, heap1.pprof, ...)
+
+3. **Monitoring Phase**
+   - Track test progress
+   - Monitor profile file sizes for growth patterns
+   - Detect if test crashes or completes
+
+4. **Analysis Phase**
+   - Use `go tool pprof` to analyze profiles
+   - Extract key metrics:
+     - Peak memory usage
+     - Memory growth over time
+     - Top allocators
+     - OpenAPI-related allocations
+     - JSON deserialization overhead
+     - Informer/cache allocations
+
+5. **Reporting Phase**
+   - Generate markdown report with:
+     - Executive summary
+     - Memory timeline chart
+     - Top allocators table
+     - Allocation breakdown
+     - Recommendations for optimization
+
+## Configuration
+
+The plugin uses these defaults (customizable via environment variables):
+
+```bash
+# Namespace where operator-controller runs
+E2E_PROFILE_NAMESPACE=olmv1-system
+
+# Collection interval in seconds
+E2E_PROFILE_INTERVAL=15
+
+# CPU sampling duration in seconds
+E2E_PROFILE_CPU_DURATION=10
+
+# Output directory base
+E2E_PROFILE_DIR=./e2e-profiles
+
+# Default test target
+E2E_PROFILE_TEST_TARGET=test-experimental-e2e
+```
+
+## Output Structure
+
+```
+e2e-profiles/
+├── baseline/
+│   ├── heap0.pprof
+│   ├── heap1.pprof
+│   ├── ...
+│   ├── heap23.pprof
+│   ├── test.log
+│   └── analysis.md
+├── with-caching/
+│   ├── heap0.pprof
+│   ├── ...
+│   └── analysis.md
+└── comparisons/
+    └── baseline-vs-with-caching.md
+```
+
+## Tool Location
+
+The memory profiling scripts are located at:
+```
+hack/tools/e2e-profiling/
+├── e2e-profile.sh        # Main entry point
+├── run-profiled-test.sh     # Run test with profiling
+├── collect-profiles.sh      # Collect heap profiles
+├── analyze-profiles.sh      # Generate analysis
+├── compare-profiles.sh      # Compare two runs
+├── README.md               # Full documentation
+└── USAGE_EXAMPLES.md       # Real-world examples
+```
+
+You can run them directly:
+```bash
+./hack/tools/e2e-profiling/e2e-profile.sh run baseline
+./hack/tools/e2e-profiling/e2e-profile.sh analyze baseline
+./hack/tools/e2e-profiling/e2e-profile.sh compare baseline optimized
+```
+
+## Requirements
+
+- kubectl with access to the cluster
+- go tool pprof
+- make (for running tests)
+- curl (for fetching profiles)
+- Port 6060 available for forwarding
+
+## Example Workflow
+
+```bash
+# 1. Run baseline test with profiling
+/e2e-profile run baseline
+
+# 2. Make code changes (e.g., add caching)
+# ... edit code ...
+
+# 3. Run new test with profiling
+/e2e-profile run with-caching
+
+# 4. Compare results
+/e2e-profile compare baseline with-caching
+
+# 5. Review the comparison report
+# Opens: e2e-profiles/comparisons/baseline-vs-with-caching.md
+```
+
+## Notes
+
+- The test will run until completion or manual interruption (Ctrl+C)
+- Each heap profile is ~11-150KB depending on memory usage
+- Analysis requires all heap files to be present
+- Port forwarding runs in background and auto-cleans on exit
+- Reports are generated in markdown format for easy viewing

.gitignore

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-# AI temp files files
-.claude/
+# AI temp/local files
+.claude/settings.local.json
+.claude/history/
+.claude/cache/
+.claude/logs/
+.claude/.session*
+.claude/*.log
 
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 # Temporary files and directories
 /test/regression/convert/testdata/tmp/*
+
+# E2E profiling artifacts
+e2e-profiles/