diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 1cab85adb3..12232eaece 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -6465,6 +6465,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "strum",
  "strum_macros",
  "thiserror 1.0.69",
+ "tikv-jemallocator",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-postgres",
  "tokio-postgres-rustls",
diff --git a/storage_controller/Cargo.toml b/storage_controller/Cargo.toml
index a93bbdeaaf..73dc1a5c10 100644
--- a/storage_controller/Cargo.toml
+++ b/storage_controller/Cargo.toml
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ reqwest = { workspace = true, features = ["stream"] }
 routerify.workspace = true
 safekeeper_api.workspace = true
 safekeeper_client.workspace = true
+tikv-jemallocator.workspace = true
 regex.workspace = true
 rustls-native-certs.workspace = true
 serde.workspace = true
diff --git a/storage_controller/src/main.rs b/storage_controller/src/main.rs
index ea6bc38e89..9a9958f7a6 100644
--- a/storage_controller/src/main.rs
+++ b/storage_controller/src/main.rs
@@ -27,6 +27,16 @@ use utils::{project_build_tag, project_git_version, tcp_listener};
 project_git_version!(GIT_VERSION);
 project_build_tag!(BUILD_TAG);
 
+#[global_allocator]
+static GLOBAL: tikv_jemallocator::Jemalloc = tikv_jemallocator::Jemalloc;
+
+/// Configure jemalloc to profile heap allocations by sampling stack traces every 2 MB (1 << 21).
+/// This adds roughly 3% overhead for allocations on average, which is acceptable considering
+/// performance-sensitive code will avoid allocations as far as possible anyway.
+#[allow(non_upper_case_globals)]
+#[export_name = "malloc_conf"]
+pub static malloc_conf: &[u8] = b"prof:true,prof_active:true,lg_prof_sample:21\0";
+
 #[derive(Parser)]
 #[command(author, version, about, long_about = None)]
 #[command(arg_required_else_help(true))]