What is "Exec Stats"
Exec Stats is a log with statistics that show how long takes the operations executed on the server.
It might reveal the performance of various internal operations inside the server
It is usually used:
- to monitor the general performance of the database. Helps to target:
- slow operations – procedures, generations, business rules
- not optimized or overused calculated attributes
- during investigations of performance problems related to:
- slow navigator loading
- calculated attributes
- slow operation of an external application
- any other server-measured operation
How to use it
* If you are using the Desktop Client
1. Pick a non-busy time in which you are the only one actively using the database
2. Go to Setup/Tools/Exec Stats
3. Clear the log using Functions/Clear Stats
4. Execute the slow operation again
5. Open Exec Stats again
6. Load the data using Home/Show Data
If you work with our team to investigate a problem you can export the data following these steps:
7. Click on any of the lines loaded in the navigator
8. Export the data using Data/Export to Excel
9. Attach the file to the ticket.
Analyze the data
- Sort ascending by Total Time, no grouping, and look at the top 10 times
- Filter by Remote Server Call and look for large server request times
- Filter by DB and look for large SQL times
- Filter by calculated attributes and see which attributes are the most time-consuming or are overused (Total Time, Avg Time, Count)
- Filter by Business Rules to see which rules are the most time consuming
- For the records with large Total Time, we look at whether they are due to many executions or if the average execution time is large
- Sort ascending by Avg Time and look for suspiciously large times
Note: Generally, navigators loading takes a lot of time, so we exclude it from this type of analysis.
But if you are suspecting that the time it takes is too long, you can always track a single load in non-busy hours and analyze the data.
A common reason for large times is calculated attributes which may be shown (or even forgotten) in some of the users' views, but for users working with large reports.
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