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Performance tuning

  • Use Java Flight Recorder to record and share diagnostic data with Support to help debug performance issues in Puppet Enterprise
  • 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
  • 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 2019.8
  • Get optimized performance settings in Puppet Enterprise
  • 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
  • Recommended reading - Prevent an eventual PuppetDB slowdown - Preventative maintenance for PuppetDB: node-purge-ttl
  • Diagnose, stop, and prevent a thundering herd for Puppet Enterprise
  • Troubleshoot and fix performance issues with the puppetlabs-puppet_metrics_collector module in Puppet Enterprise
  • 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 in Puppet Enterprise: Run Puppet with cron or the reidmv-puppet_run_scheduler module
  • Determine a thundering herd in Puppet Enterprise
  • Enable and view the PuppetDB performance dashboard for Puppet Enterprise 3.3.2 to 2019.1
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