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  1. SetupGeneralGlobal SettingsUser InterfaceProfile Request
    Screenshot of enable profiling by request via global settings.
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  2. Modify the URL to profile by adding '&_profile=1' and fire submit the request in your browser.

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    http://localhost/nagnis_master/check_mk/view.py?view_name=allhosts&_profile=1

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  3. Now two files are created in ~{{$OMD_ROOT/var/check_mk/}}.

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    root@mylinuxhost:/opt/omd/sites/mysite/var/check_mk# ll |grep multisite
    -rw-rw---- 1 mysite mysite 100246 Nov 6 13:35 multisite.profile
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 mysite mysite 155 Nov 6 13:35 multisite.py*

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  4. By executing 'multisite.py', you can get runtime statistics about the last processed page.

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    root@mylinuxhost:/opt/omd/sites/mysite/var/check_mk# ./multisite.py |more
    Fri Nov  6 13:35:33 2020    /omd/sites/nagnis_master/var/check_mk/multisite.profile
    
             9585 function calls (9480 primitive calls) in 0.007 seconds
    
       Ordered by: internal time
    
       ncalls  tottime  percall  cumtime  percall filename:lineno(function)
            1    0.001    0.001    0.002    0.002 /omd/sites/mysite/lib/python/cmk/gui/modules.py:140(_cmk_gui_top_level_modules)
         4652    0.000    0.000    0.000    0.000 {method 'startswith' of 'str' objects}
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  5. For viewing multisite.profile with snakeviz, move the file to another directory (e.g., /tmp), and change the owner to the owner of your Internet Browser.

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    linuxuser@mylinuxhost:/omd/sites/mysite/var/check_mk$ sudo cp multisite.profile /tmp/
    linuxuser@mylinuxhost:/tmp$ sudo chown linuxuser:linuxuser multisite.profile
    

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  6. Install the Python module (for Python 2 or Python 3, respectively).

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    root@mylinuxhost:~# pip install snakeviz
    root@mylinuxhost:~# pip3 install snakeviz

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  7. Now you can use snakeviz to view the profiling file.

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    linuxuser@mylinuxhost:/tmp$ snakeviz multisite.profile


    Screenshot of snakeviz

.Now you can analyze at which point of the request your view needs the most time!.

Profiling via cli


  1. The cmk commands have the option to profile them.

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    OMD[mysite]:~$ cmk |grep profile
       --profile           Enable profiling mode

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  2. The profile file will be created in the current directory. Let's go to tmp and run the cmk command with the profile option.

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    ➜  ~ su - at                                        
    OMD[mysite]:~$ cd tmp
    OMD[mysite]:~$ cmk -Afv --profile


    Note

    cmk -Afv --profile is only one example. This command will trigger the agent baking via the CLI. You may need to profile a different command.

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      1. Now we will see two files:

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        OMD[mysite]:~/tmp$ ls |grep profile
        profile.out*
        show_profile.py*

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      2. To work with these files, we need to copy them outside the site.

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        OMD[mysite]:~/tmp$ cp show_profile.py profile.out /tmp/

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      3. Now there are two ways to analyze these files:

        1. Open the profile file via the command line:

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          ➜  /tmp ./show_profile.py 


        2. Analyze via snakevize as described here: Checkmk profiling#GUIProfiling

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There is a simple to achieve this anyway:

The solution is: Python virtualenv inspired by: https://computingforgeeks.com/how-to-install-python2-with-virtualenv-on-ubuntu/How To Install Python 2 with Virtualenv on Ubuntu 20.04

Here is my short step-by-step guide:

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  1. Start the Network Monitor
  2. Reload the slow/ crashing view again and save/export this file as .har. Please submit this file to us.

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