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  2. Performance tuning

Performance tuning

  • Diagnose performance issues and tune your Puppet Enterprise VM in VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi)
  • Use the Puppet Profile Parser to graph and investigate Puppet Server performance in Puppet Enterprise 2018.1 to 2019.2
  • Use tasks to stop a thundering herd in Puppet Enterprise 2017.3 and later
  • Identify and fix performance issues caused by frequent garbage collection in Puppet Enterprise
  • Fix "java.lang.OutOfMemoryError" errors by increasing the Java heap size in Puppet Enterprise 2018.1 to 2019.x
  • Get optimized performance settings in Puppet Enterprise 2018.1 and later
  • Submit puppetlabs-puppet_metrics_dashboard metrics to Support
  • Manage the installation and configuration of metrics dashboards using the puppetlabs-puppet_metrics_dashboard module for Puppet Enterprise 2016.4 to 2019.1
  • Prevent a thundering herd: Use max-queued-requests in Puppet Enterprise 2017.3.1 and later
  • Recommended reading - Prevent an eventual PuppetDB slowdown - Preventative maintenance for PuppetDB: node-purge-ttl
  • Diagnose, stop, and prevent a thundering herd for Puppet Enterprise 3.x to 2019.2
  • Fix "java.lang.OutOfMemoryError" errors in Puppet Enterprise 2015.x to 2017.3.x
  • Troubleshoot and fix performance issues in Puppet Enterprise 2016.4 to 2019.8 with the puppetlabs-puppet_metrics_collector module
  • Automate your PE database, maintenance, backups, and tuning with the puppetlabs-pe_databases module for Puppet Enterprise 2018.1 to 2019.8
  • Prevent a thundering herd: Run Puppet out of Cron in Puppet Enterprise 2015.2 to 2019.2
  • Stop a thundering herd: Redistribute agent node check-ins with MCollective for Puppet Enterprise 2015.2 to 2017.3
  • Avoid thundering herd in Puppet Enterprise 2015.3 and 2015.2: splay
  • Determine a thundering herd condition in Puppet Enterprise 3.x to 2019.2
  • Enable and view the PuppetDB performance dashboard for Puppet Enterprise 3.3.2 to 2019.1
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