Commit 5e9a3944 authored by Stan Hu's avatar Stan Hu

Merge branch 'fix/request-profiler-docs' into 'master'

Add docs for request profiling

See merge request !6901
parents 53181e77 c180221a
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- Fixes padding in all clipboard icons that have .btn class
- Fix a typo in doc/api/labels.md
- API: all unknown routing will be handled with 404 Not Found
- Add docs for request profiling
- Make guests unable to view MRs on private projects
v 8.12.7
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- [Git LFS configuration](workflow/lfs/lfs_administration.md)
- [Housekeeping](administration/housekeeping.md) Keep your Git repository tidy and fast.
- [GitLab Performance Monitoring](administration/monitoring/performance/introduction.md) Configure GitLab and InfluxDB for measuring performance metrics.
- [Request Profiling](administration/monitoring/performance/request_profiling.md) Get a detailed profile on slow requests.
- [Monitoring uptime](user/admin_area/monitoring/health_check.md) Check the server status using the health check endpoint.
- [Debugging Tips](administration/troubleshooting/debug.md) Tips to debug problems when things go wrong
- [Sidekiq Troubleshooting](administration/troubleshooting/sidekiq.md) Debug when Sidekiq appears hung and is not processing jobs.
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# Request Profiling
## Procedure
1. Grab the profiling token from `Monitoring > Requests Profiles` admin page
(highlighted in a blue in the image below).
![Profile token](img/request_profiling_token.png)
1. Pass the header `X-Profile-Token: <token>` to the request you want to profile. You can use any of these tools
* [ModHeader](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/modheader/idgpnmonknjnojddfkpgkljpfnnfcklj) Chrome extension
* [Modify Headers](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/modify-headers/) Firefox extension
* `curl --header 'X-Profile-Token: <token>' https://gitlab.example.com/group/project`
1. Once request is finished (which will take a little longer than usual), you can
view the profiling output from `Monitoring > Requests Profiles` admin page.
![Profiling output](img/request_profile_result.png)
## Cleaning up
Profiling output will be cleared out every day via a Sidekiq worker.
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## Tooling
GitLab provides two built-in tools to aid the process of improving performance:
GitLab provides built-in tools to aid the process of improving performance:
* [Sherlock](profiling.md#sherlock)
* [GitLab Performance Monitoring](../monitoring/performance/monitoring.md)
* [Request Profiling](../administration/monitoring/performance/request_profiling.md)
GitLab employees can use GitLab.com's performance monitoring systems located at
<http://performance.gitlab.net>, this requires you to log in using your
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