Performance

Performance allows you to view up-to-the-minute user, server, and client metrics for your experience. Monitor this page before and after updating your experience to identify performance issues early.

Viewing Performance Metrics

To view your experience's performance monitoring page:

  1. Navigate to your Creations page on Creator Dashboard and select your experience.
  2. Select Performance.

You can view analytics for individual or group owned experience. To view the latter, you need to have group permissions for analytics.

Monitoring Performance

The dashboard includes the following metrics, with version update annotations in each chart:

MetricDescription
Concurrent usersNumber of users in your experience at any given time.
Session timeLength of time users spend in your experience per session.
Server frame rateFrames per second processed by the server.
Server memory usageMemory consumed by the server.
Client frame rateFrames per second processed by each client. Large drops may signal issues.
Client crash rateSessions that crash as a percent of overall sessions. Large spikes may signal issues.
Client memory usageMemory consumed by each client. Large spikes may signal issues.
Compute efficiencyEfficiency of server resource utilization. Above 100% is more efficient.

Data in these charts can be difficult to parse for experiences with low user counts, so your experience needs around 100 daily active users or 10 concurrent users to see server and client charts clearly. Consider troubleshooting for performance issues when seeing the following chart behaviors over a short period of time:

  1. Drop of concurrent users or session time.
  2. Decrease of server frame rate.
  3. Spike of server memory usage.
An example of server stats with potential performance issue.

Identifying Potential Performance Issues

You can use the following filters at the top of the page to help you identify potential performance issues:

FilterDescription
DateView metrics for last hour, last day, last 7 days, or last 30 days. If you select last hour, the charts auto-update every minute. Otherwise, you can get up to the minute data by refreshing the page.
PlaceView metrics for a specific place.
PercentileView metrics at 10% to 99% percentile.
An example of filtered user stats.

Resolving Performance Issues

If you identify a performance issue, use the following steps to debug and fix it:

  1. Check your recent updates and consider rolling it back if the metrics impact is severe.

  2. Use built-in testing tools to troubleshoot performance:

    • Developer Console for viewing error and log messages and detailed information on memory and networking.
    • Script Profiler for identifying scripts that take up the most resources.
    • MicroProfiler for viewing unoptimized portions of your experience visually.
  3. Gather user feedback from your community.

For more information on optimizing performance for different areas of your experience, see Performance Optimization.