Business Central Musings

Whenever you have a process that takes longer use the Performance Profiler page in Business Central, sometimes also called the in-client Performance Profiler, to record a snapshot of the process.

From <https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/administration/performance-profiler-overview>

Invoking Performance Profiler

In BC, in the global search:

Use Alt + Q -> “Performance Profiler”

Also in BC, in the help menu, use “?” -> Help & Support -> Troubleshooting -> Analyze Performance

How to record performance

1. On Performance Profiler page:

-> “Start”

2. In BC go to the page that experiences slowness, run the process …

3. Back to Performance Profiler page:

-> “Stop”

Analyze recorded performance

Active Apps – > apps that run during your recording

Time Spent -> time spent by each App

Call Tree -> what objects/functions have been executed during recording

Share Profiler Data

Once recording done, share the data collected:

• download alcpuprofile file with your ERP partner by clicking on Download on Performance Profiler page.

Hope this helps!