diff --git a/awx/main/middleware.py b/awx/main/middleware.py
index b1a03c9a38..d79eb06af9 100644
--- a/awx/main/middleware.py
+++ b/awx/main/middleware.py
@@ -62,6 +62,17 @@ class TimingMiddleware(threading.local, MiddlewareMixin):
         with open(filepath, 'w') as f:
             f.write('%s %s\n' % (request.method, request.get_full_path()))
             pstats.Stats(self.prof, stream=f).sort_stats('cumulative').print_stats()
+
+        if settings.AWX_REQUEST_PROFILE_WITH_DOT:
+            from gprof2dot import main as generate_dot
+            raw = os.path.join(self.dest, filename) + '.raw'
+            pstats.Stats(self.prof).dump_stats(raw)
+            generate_dot([
+                '-n', '2.5', '-f', 'pstats', '-o',
+                os.path.join( self.dest, filename).replace('.pstats', '.dot'),
+                raw
+            ])
+            os.remove(raw)
         return filepath
 
 
diff --git a/awx/settings/defaults.py b/awx/settings/defaults.py
index 180a447030..e86208e051 100644
--- a/awx/settings/defaults.py
+++ b/awx/settings/defaults.py
@@ -1208,6 +1208,19 @@ SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS = ['models.E006']
 # Use middleware to get request statistics
 AWX_REQUEST_PROFILE = False
 
+#
+# Optionally, AWX can generate DOT graphs
+# (http://www.graphviz.org/doc/info/lang.html) for per-request profiling
+# via gprof2dot (https://github.com/jrfonseca/gprof2dot)
+#
+# If you set this to True, you must `/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/bin/pip install gprof2dot`
+# .dot files will be saved in `/var/log/tower/profile/` and can be converted e.g.,
+#
+# ~ yum install graphviz
+# ~ dot -o profile.png -Tpng /var/log/tower/profile/some-profile-data.dot
+#
+AWX_REQUEST_PROFILE_WITH_DOT = False
+
 # Delete temporary directories created to store playbook run-time
 AWX_CLEANUP_PATHS = True
 
diff --git a/requirements/requirements_dev.txt b/requirements/requirements_dev.txt
index 635862432c..fa73f78c78 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements_dev.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements_dev.txt
@@ -21,4 +21,5 @@ matplotlib
 backports.tempfile  # support in unit tests for py32+ tempfile.TemporaryDirectory
 mockldap
 sdb
+gprof2dot
 atomicwrites==1.1.5