diff --git a/src/Common/ProfileEvents.cpp b/src/Common/ProfileEvents.cpp
index f4d7242f70a..aadbc8b2471 100644
--- a/src/Common/ProfileEvents.cpp
+++ b/src/Common/ProfileEvents.cpp
@@ -316,6 +316,7 @@ The server successfully detected this situation and will download merged part fr
     \
     M(CannotWriteToWriteBufferDiscard, "Number of stack traces dropped by query profiler or signal handler because pipe is full or cannot write to pipe.") \
     M(QueryProfilerSignalOverruns, "Number of times we drop processing of a query profiler signal due to overrun plus the number of signals that OS has not delivered due to overrun.") \
+    M(QueryProfilerConcurrencyOverruns, "Number of times we drop processing of a query profiler signal due to too many concurrent query profilers in other threads, which may indicate overload.") \
     M(QueryProfilerRuns, "Number of times QueryProfiler had been run.") \
     \
     M(CreatedLogEntryForMerge, "Successfully created log entry to merge parts in ReplicatedMergeTree.") \
diff --git a/src/Common/QueryProfiler.cpp b/src/Common/QueryProfiler.cpp
index dc9f3610513..c656e7f992f 100644
--- a/src/Common/QueryProfiler.cpp
+++ b/src/Common/QueryProfiler.cpp
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ namespace CurrentMetrics
 namespace ProfileEvents
 {
     extern const Event QueryProfilerSignalOverruns;
+    extern const Event QueryProfilerConcurrencyOverruns;
     extern const Event QueryProfilerRuns;
 }
 
@@ -40,8 +41,19 @@ namespace
     /// to ignore delivered signals after timer_delete().
     thread_local bool signal_handler_disarmed = true;
 
+    /// Don't permit too many threads be busy inside profiler,
+    /// which could slow down the system in some environments.
+    std::atomic<Int64> concurrent_invocations = 0;
+
     void writeTraceInfo(TraceType trace_type, int /* sig */, siginfo_t * info, void * context)
     {
+        SCOPE_EXIT({ concurrent_invocations.fetch_sub(1, std::memory_order_relaxed); });
+        if (concurrent_invocations.fetch_add(1, std::memory_order_relaxed) > 100)
+        {
+            ProfileEvents::incrementNoTrace(ProfileEvents::QueryProfilerConcurrencyOverruns);
+            return;
+        }
+
         auto saved_errno = errno;   /// We must restore previous value of errno in signal handler.
 
 #if defined(OS_LINUX)