diff --git a/.github/workflows/rust.yml b/.github/workflows/rust.yml
index 89aae4a0..3ad60123 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/rust.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/rust.yml
@@ -25,11 +25,17 @@ jobs:
           command: fmt
           args: --all -- --check
 
-      - name: Run cargo clippy
+      - name: Run cargo clippy prost
         uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1.0.3
         with:
           command: clippy
-          args: --all-features -- -D warnings
+          args: --features flamegraph,prost-codec -- -D warnings
+
+      - name: Run cargo clippy protobuf
+        uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1.0.3
+        with:
+          command: clippy
+          args: --features flamegraph,protobuf-codec -- -D warnings
 
   build:
     name: Build
@@ -52,11 +58,17 @@ jobs:
           target: ${{ matrix.target }}
           override: true
 
-      - name: Run cargo build
+      - name: Run cargo build prost
+        uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1.0.3
+        with:
+          command: build
+          args: --features flamegraph,prost-codec --target ${{ matrix.target }}
+
+      - name: Run cargo build protobuf
         uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1.0.3
         with:
           command: build
-          args: --all-features --target ${{ matrix.target }}
+          args: --features flamegraph,protobuf-codec --target ${{ matrix.target }}
 
   test:
     name: Test
@@ -77,8 +89,14 @@ jobs:
           toolchain: ${{ matrix.toolchain }}
           override: true
 
-      - name: Run cargo test
+      - name: Run cargo test prost
+        uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1.0.3
+        with:
+          command: test
+          args: --features flamegraph,prost-codec
+
+      - name: Run cargo test protobuf
         uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1.0.3
         with:
           command: test
-          args: --all-features
+          args: --features flamegraph,protobuf-codec
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index b5ef7c93..524dafb7 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -17,3 +17,5 @@ Cargo.lock
 /target
 #**/*.rs.bk
 #Cargo.lock
+
+.idea
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 19f9a8e5..669d8af3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+### Added
+- Add rust-protobuf support by adding protobuf-codec features (#106)
+
+### Changed
+- protobuf feature is renamed to prost-codec to align all other tikv projects (#106)
+
 ## [0.6.2] - 2021-12-24
 ### Added
 - implement `Clone` for `ProfilerGuardBuilder` [@yangkeao](https://github.com/YangKeao)
@@ -151,4 +157,4 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 ## [0.1.0] - 2019-10-22
 ### Added
 - Support profiling with signal handler [@yangkeao](https://github.com/YangKeao)
-- Support generating flamegraph [@yangkeao](https://github.com/YangKeao)
\ No newline at end of file
+- Support generating flamegraph [@yangkeao](https://github.com/YangKeao)
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 2d6b981e..2b622ffb 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -12,7 +12,10 @@ readme = "README.md"
 [features]
 default = ["cpp"]
 flamegraph = ["inferno"]
-protobuf = ["prost", "prost-derive", "prost-build"]
+# A private feature to indicate either prost-codec or protobuf-codec is enabled.
+_protobuf = []
+prost-codec = ["prost", "prost-derive", "prost-build", "_protobuf"]
+protobuf-codec = ["protobuf", "protobuf-codegen-pure", "_protobuf"]
 cpp = ["symbolic-demangle/cpp"]
 
 [dependencies]
@@ -31,6 +34,7 @@ smallvec = "1.7"
 inferno = { version = "0.10", default-features = false, features = ["nameattr"], optional = true }
 prost = { version = "0.9", optional = true }
 prost-derive = { version = "0.9", optional = true }
+protobuf = { version = "2.0", optional = true }
 criterion = {version = "0.3", optional = true}
 
 [dependencies.symbolic-demangle]
@@ -44,6 +48,7 @@ rand = "0.8.0"
 
 [build-dependencies]
 prost-build = { version = "0.9", optional = true }
+protobuf-codegen-pure = { version = "2.0", optional = true }
 
 [[example]]
 name = "flamegraph"
diff --git a/build.rs b/build.rs
index bfe04ca3..6db69bb8 100644
--- a/build.rs
+++ b/build.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,30 @@
 // Copyright 2019 TiKV Project Authors. Licensed under Apache-2.0.
 
+#[cfg(feature = "protobuf-codec")]
+// Allow deprecated as TiKV pin versions to a outdated one.
+#[allow(deprecated)]
+fn generate_protobuf() {
+    use std::io::Write;
+
+    let out_dir = std::env::var("OUT_DIR").unwrap();
+    protobuf_codegen_pure::run(protobuf_codegen_pure::Args {
+        out_dir: &out_dir,
+        includes: &["proto"],
+        input: &["proto/profile.proto"],
+        customize: protobuf_codegen_pure::Customize {
+            generate_accessors: Some(false),
+            lite_runtime: Some(true),
+            ..Default::default()
+        },
+    })
+    .unwrap();
+    let mut f = std::fs::File::create(format!("{}/mod.rs", out_dir)).unwrap();
+    write!(f, "pub mod profile;").unwrap();
+}
+
 fn main() {
-    #[cfg(feature = "protobuf")]
+    #[cfg(feature = "prost-codec")]
     prost_build::compile_protos(&["proto/profile.proto"], &["proto/"]).unwrap();
+    #[cfg(feature = "protobuf-codec")]
+    generate_protobuf();
 }
diff --git a/examples/profile_proto.rs b/examples/profile_proto.rs
index f6a5ad57..7ffb7884 100644
--- a/examples/profile_proto.rs
+++ b/examples/profile_proto.rs
@@ -108,7 +108,10 @@ fn main() {
             let profile = report.pprof().unwrap();
 
             let mut content = Vec::new();
+            #[cfg(not(feature = "protobuf-codec"))]
             profile.encode(&mut content).unwrap();
+            #[cfg(feature = "protobuf-codec")]
+            profile.write_to_vec(&mut content).unwrap();
             file.write_all(&content).unwrap();
 
             println!("report: {:?}", report);
diff --git a/proto/profile.proto b/proto/profile.proto
index 6f141c78..4ea85164 100644
--- a/proto/profile.proto
+++ b/proto/profile.proto
@@ -93,7 +93,8 @@ message Profile {
 
 // ValueType describes the semantics and measurement units of a value.
 message ValueType {
-  int64 type = 1; // Index into string table.
+  // Rename it from type to ty to avoid using keyword in Rust.
+  int64 ty = 1; // Index into string table.
   int64 unit = 2; // Index into string table.
 }
 
diff --git a/src/criterion.rs b/src/criterion.rs
index 87d5bd94..a8e00a9d 100644
--- a/src/criterion.rs
+++ b/src/criterion.rs
@@ -2,14 +2,14 @@
 
 #[cfg(feature = "flamegraph")]
 use crate::flamegraph::Options as FlamegraphOptions;
-#[cfg(feature = "protobuf")]
+#[cfg(feature = "_protobuf")]
 use crate::protos::Message;
 
 use crate::ProfilerGuard;
 use criterion::profiler::Profiler;
 
 use std::fs::File;
-#[cfg(feature = "protobuf")]
+#[cfg(feature = "_protobuf")]
 use std::io::Write;
 use std::marker::PhantomData;
 use std::os::raw::c_int;
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ pub enum Output<'a> {
     #[cfg(feature = "flamegraph")]
     Flamegraph(Option<FlamegraphOptions<'a>>),
 
-    #[cfg(feature = "protobuf")]
+    #[cfg(feature = "_protobuf")]
     Protobuf,
 
     #[deprecated(
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ impl<'a, 'b> PProfProfiler<'a, 'b> {
     }
 }
 
-#[cfg(not(any(feature = "protobuf", feature = "flamegraph")))]
+#[cfg(not(any(feature = "_protobuf", feature = "flamegraph")))]
 compile_error!("Either feature \"protobuf\" or \"flamegraph\" must be enabled when \"criterion\" feature is enabled.");
 
 impl<'a, 'b> Profiler for PProfProfiler<'a, 'b> {
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ impl<'a, 'b> Profiler for PProfProfiler<'a, 'b> {
         let filename = match self.output {
             #[cfg(feature = "flamegraph")]
             Output::Flamegraph(_) => "flamegraph.svg",
-            #[cfg(feature = "protobuf")]
+            #[cfg(feature = "_protobuf")]
             Output::Protobuf => "profile.pb",
             // This is `""` but not `unreachable!()`, because `unreachable!()`
             // will result in another compile error, so that the user may not
@@ -86,16 +86,21 @@ impl<'a, 'b> Profiler for PProfProfiler<'a, 'b> {
                         .expect("Error while writing flamegraph");
                 }
 
-                #[cfg(feature = "protobuf")]
+                #[cfg(feature = "_protobuf")]
                 Output::Protobuf => {
                     let mut output_file = output_file;
 
                     let profile = profiler.report().build().unwrap().pprof().unwrap();
 
                     let mut content = Vec::new();
+                    #[cfg(not(feature = "protobuf-codec"))]
                     profile
                         .encode(&mut content)
                         .expect("Error while encoding protobuf");
+                    #[cfg(feature = "protobuf-codec")]
+                    profile
+                        .write_to_vec(&mut content)
+                        .expect("Error while encoding protobuf");
 
                     output_file
                         .write_all(&content)
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 4336939d..4fa36c44 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -60,12 +60,21 @@ pub use self::report::{Report, ReportBuilder};
 #[cfg(feature = "flamegraph")]
 pub use inferno::flamegraph;
 
-#[cfg(feature = "protobuf")]
+#[cfg(all(feature = "prost-codec", not(feature = "protobuf-codec")))]
 pub mod protos {
     pub use prost::Message;
 
     include!(concat!(env!("OUT_DIR"), "/perftools.profiles.rs"));
 }
 
+#[cfg(feature = "protobuf-codec")]
+pub mod protos {
+    pub use protobuf::Message;
+
+    include!(concat!(env!("OUT_DIR"), "/mod.rs"));
+
+    pub use self::profile::*;
+}
+
 #[cfg(feature = "criterion")]
 pub mod criterion;
diff --git a/src/report.rs b/src/report.rs
index 3daaf5f4..a19b940e 100644
--- a/src/report.rs
+++ b/src/report.rs
@@ -209,7 +209,9 @@ mod flamegraph {
     }
 }
 
-#[cfg(feature = "protobuf")]
+#[cfg(feature = "_protobuf")]
+#[allow(clippy::useless_conversion)]
+#[allow(clippy::needless_update)]
 mod protobuf {
     use super::*;
     use crate::protos;
@@ -278,10 +280,11 @@ mod protobuf {
                         let line = protos::Line {
                             function_id,
                             line: lineno as i64,
+                            ..protos::Line::default()
                         };
                         let loc = protos::Location {
                             id: function_id,
-                            line: vec![line],
+                            line: vec![line].into(),
                             ..protos::Location::default()
                         };
                         // the fn_tbl has the same length with loc_tbl
@@ -302,24 +305,27 @@ mod protobuf {
                         *count as i64,
                         *count as i64 * 1_000_000_000 / self.timing.frequency as i64,
                     ],
-                    label: vec![thread_name],
+                    label: vec![thread_name].into(),
+                    ..Default::default()
                 };
                 samples.push(sample);
             }
             let samples_value = protos::ValueType {
-                r#type: *strings.get(SAMPLES).unwrap() as i64,
+                ty: *strings.get(SAMPLES).unwrap() as i64,
                 unit: *strings.get(COUNT).unwrap() as i64,
+                ..Default::default()
             };
             let time_value = protos::ValueType {
-                r#type: *strings.get(CPU).unwrap() as i64,
+                ty: *strings.get(CPU).unwrap() as i64,
                 unit: *strings.get(NANOSECONDS).unwrap() as i64,
+                ..Default::default()
             };
             let profile = protos::Profile {
-                sample_type: vec![samples_value, time_value.clone()],
-                sample: samples,
-                string_table: str_tbl,
-                function: fn_tbl,
-                location: loc_tbl,
+                sample_type: vec![samples_value, time_value.clone()].into(),
+                sample: samples.into(),
+                string_table: str_tbl.into(),
+                function: fn_tbl.into(),
+                location: loc_tbl.into(),
                 time_nanos: self
                     .timing
                     .start_time
@@ -327,7 +333,7 @@ mod protobuf {
                     .unwrap_or_default()
                     .as_nanos() as i64,
                 duration_nanos: self.timing.duration.as_nanos() as i64,
-                period_type: Some(time_value),
+                period_type: Some(time_value).into(),
                 period: 1_000_000_000 / self.timing.frequency as i64,
                 ..protos::Profile::default()
             };