diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 6698e11c..b4059ad7 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -41,3 +41,4 @@ indexmap = { version = "2.0", features = ["serde"] }
 
 [profile.release]
 debug = 1  # line table + symbol names for flamegraph; no effect on codegen or runtime perf
+strip = "none"
diff --git a/asap-tools/data-sources/prometheus-exporters/fake_exporter/fake_exporter_rust/fake_exporter/Cargo.toml b/asap-tools/data-sources/prometheus-exporters/fake_exporter/fake_exporter_rust/fake_exporter/Cargo.toml
index ab6cec67..7915fbb7 100644
--- a/asap-tools/data-sources/prometheus-exporters/fake_exporter/fake_exporter_rust/fake_exporter/Cargo.toml
+++ b/asap-tools/data-sources/prometheus-exporters/fake_exporter/fake_exporter_rust/fake_exporter/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+[workspace]
+
 [package]
 name = "fake_exporter"
 version = "0.1.0"
diff --git a/asap-tools/experiments/remote_monitor.py b/asap-tools/experiments/remote_monitor.py
index 577d6f07..a92a50d2 100644
--- a/asap-tools/experiments/remote_monitor.py
+++ b/asap-tools/experiments/remote_monitor.py
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ def start_profiling_query_engine_pids(qe_pids, experiment_output_dir):
             "--call-graph",
             "dwarf",
             "-F",
-            "997",
+            "99",
             "-o",
             output_file,
             "--pid",
@@ -212,6 +212,28 @@ def stop_profiling_query_engine_pids(qe_perf_procs, store: bool):
     logger.debug("Stopped profiling for query engine pids")
 
 
+def convert_query_engine_perf_data(experiment_output_dir):
+    qe_profiles_dir = os.path.join(experiment_output_dir, "query_engine_profiles")
+    data_files = [
+        os.path.join(qe_profiles_dir, f)
+        for f in os.listdir(qe_profiles_dir)
+        if f.startswith("perf_") and f.endswith(".data")
+    ]
+    for data_file in data_files:
+        script_file = data_file.replace(".data", ".script")
+        logger.debug(f"Converting {data_file} to {script_file}")
+        try:
+            with open(script_file, "w") as f:
+                subprocess.run(
+                    ["perf", "script", "-i", data_file],
+                    stdout=f,
+                    check=True,
+                )
+            logger.debug(f"Finished converting {data_file}")
+        except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
+            logger.warning(f"perf script failed for {data_file}: {e}")
+
+
 # TODO Provide some way of specifying which hooks will be used
 def get_process_monitor_hooks(
     export_cost: bool, provider, node_offset: int
@@ -408,6 +430,7 @@ def main(args):
     if qe_flamegraph_procs:
         logger.debug("Stopping profiling for query engine pids")
         stop_profiling_query_engine_pids(qe_flamegraph_procs, store=True)
+        convert_query_engine_perf_data(args.experiment_output_dir)
 
     logger.debug("Stopping process monitors")
     monitor_info = process_monitor.stop_monitor(monitor, control_pipe, monitor_pipe)
diff --git a/asap-tools/installation/common/setup_dependencies.sh b/asap-tools/installation/common/setup_dependencies.sh
index 5bd7c1b5..6120a78a 100755
--- a/asap-tools/installation/common/setup_dependencies.sh
+++ b/asap-tools/installation/common/setup_dependencies.sh
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ THIS_DIR=$(dirname "$(readlink -f "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")")
 sudo apt-get update
 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa -y
 sudo apt-get update
-sudo apt-get install -y python3-pip ipython3 golang-go python3.11 htop
+sudo apt-get install -y python3-pip ipython3 golang-go python3.11 htop linux-tools-common linux-tools-"$(uname -r)"
 pip3 install --user pandas 'scipy==1.15' numpy matplotlib psutil loguru pyarrow hydra-core omegaconf
 pip3 install --user plotnine
 
diff --git a/asap-tools/installation/flamegraph/install.sh b/asap-tools/installation/flamegraph/install.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index f17f2229..00000000
--- a/asap-tools/installation/flamegraph/install.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-cargo install flamegraph
diff --git a/asap-tools/installation/flamegraph/setup_dependencies.sh b/asap-tools/installation/flamegraph/setup_dependencies.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 8957637e..00000000
--- a/asap-tools/installation/flamegraph/setup_dependencies.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-sudo apt-get install -y linux-tools-common "linux-tools-$(uname -r)"
-sudo sh -c 'echo -1 > /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid'
diff --git a/asap-tools/installation/install_external_components.sh b/asap-tools/installation/install_external_components.sh
index 151239e3..5713435f 100755
--- a/asap-tools/installation/install_external_components.sh
+++ b/asap-tools/installation/install_external_components.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
 # PREDEFINED_COMPONENTS=("benchmarks" "exporters" "flink" "grafana" "kafka" "prometheus" "prometheus_kafka_adapter" "asprof")
-PREDEFINED_COMPONENTS=("benchmarks" "exporters" "flink" "grafana" "kafka" "prometheus" "asprof" "arroyo" "flamegraph")
+PREDEFINED_COMPONENTS=("benchmarks" "exporters" "flink" "grafana" "kafka" "prometheus" "asprof" "arroyo")
 
 if [ "$#" -lt 2 ]; then
     echo "Usage: $0 <install_dir> <component1> [<component2> ...]"