request_profiling.md

Request Profiling

Procedure

1. Grab the profiling token from Monitoring > Requests Profiles admin page (highlighted in a blue in the image below).
2. Pass the header X-Profile-Token: <token> to the request you want to profile. You can use any of these tools
   • ModHeader Chrome extension
   • Modify Headers Firefox extension
   • curl --header 'X-Profile-Token: <token>' https://gitlab.example.com/group/project
3. Once request is finished (which will take a little longer than usual), you can view the profiling output from Monitoring > Requests Profiles admin page.

Cleaning up

Profiling output will be cleared out every day via a Sidekiq worker.