Choose between more sampling intervals for snapshot and in-client profiling
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| Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
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| Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | 
Aug 16, 2023 |
Oct 2, 2023 |
Business value
Some releases ago we introduced a great new tool to investigate AL performance, namely profiling—either as the AL profiler for developers in a snapshot debug session from within Visual Studio Code, or as part of the in-client performance profiler accessible to customer admins and consultants as well as developers.
In the in-client performance profiler, and optionally in the AL profiler, sampling is used to determine at what intervals the system monitors what is running. At launch we supported 100ms sampling interval only. Based on feedback we are now allowing the user to choose between 50, 100 and 150ms. This allows for both finer and coarser granularity of insights, for example, to catch smaller operations and get more accurate durations, or to limit dates being captured and displayed to larger operations only.
Feature details
With the launch.json snapshot configuration parameter profileSamplingInterval, AL developers can specify the interval at which the sampling will be collected. Current options are {50ms, 100ms, 150ms}. The default value is 100ms.
Likewise, in the in-client performance profiler, there is a new Settings action, where you can select the same sampling internal options. Again, 100ms is the default.
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See also
Initialize a snapshot debugging session on a cloud production environment (docs)