6060
pprof
TCP · 0x17AC
Port 6060 — pprof
Monitoring
Port 6060 carries Go pprof over TCP. Above 1023, so an ordinary user can open it.
1024–49151. Meant to be applied for, though some numbers here are custom by habit.
By custom · Not a registered number but one settled by habit. Another program may well have taken it first.
Where it sits in 65535
A port number is 16 bits, so it stops at 65535. The narrow band at the left is everything up to 1023.
065535
- Service
- Go pprof (pprof)
- Kind
- Monitoring
- Protocol
- TCP
- Range
- Registered
- Root needed
- No
- Hexadecimal
- 0x17AC
- Binary
- 0001011110101100
- Two bytes
- 23 · 172
Same kind
Collecting logs and watching health.
Ports next to it
How to read this
- A port number is 16 bits, so it runs 0 to 65535. There is no port 65536.
- Opening anything at or below 1023 needs root on Unix.
- Plain and encrypted often live on different numbers — 80 and 443, for one.
- Numbers like 3000 and 8080 were never registered; those are marked as custom.
Frequently asked questions
Q. What is port 6060 used for?
Go pprof (pprof) uses it, over TCP.
Q. Does opening port 6060 need root?
No. It is above 1023, so an ordinary user can open it.
Q. Which range does port 6060 fall in?
Registered (1024–49151). In hex it is 0x17AC.
Q. Does port 6060 have a twin?
Not a separate one. It either was encrypted from the start or negotiates TLS on the same number.