diff --git a/piker/_profile.py b/piker/_profile.py
index fa38d065..06abc09a 100644
--- a/piker/_profile.py
+++ b/piker/_profile.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Profiling wrappers for internal libs.
 import time
 from functools import wraps
 
-_pg_profile: bool = False
+_pg_profile: bool = True
 
 
 def pg_profile_enabled() -> bool: