sharePoint 2010 – Enable & using Developer Dashboard

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Hello again,

next question from TechEd:

How to enable Developer Dashboard and how to use this?

Enable / Disable over stsadm:

stsadm –o getproperty –pn developer-dashboard

 get the current setting from developer dashboard (On |Off | OnDemand ) image

stsadm –o setproperty –pn developer-dashboard –pv “On”

 set the setting from developer dashboard (On |Off | OnDemand) image

Enable / Disable over powershell (functionality has changed in beta time) 

OLD: Turn On: Set-SPFarm –DeveloperDashboardEnabled

OLD: Turn Off: Set-SPFarm –DeveloperDashboardEnabled $false

NEW: Turn On: for onDemain Mode

$service = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebService]::ContentService
$addsetting =$service.DeveloperDashboardSettings
$addsetting.DisplayLevel = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPDeveloperDashboardLevel]::OnDemand
$addsetting.Update()

NEW: Turn On

$service = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebService]::ContentService
$addsetting =$service.DeveloperDashboardSettings
$addsetting.DisplayLevel = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPDeveloperDashboardLevel]::On
$addsetting.Update()

NEW: Turn Off

$service = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebService]::ContentService
$addsetting =$service.DeveloperDashboardSettings
$addsetting.DisplayLevel = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPDeveloperDashboardLevel]::Off
$addsetting.Update()


Details see here: SPDeveloperDashboardLevel Enumeration, DeveloperDashboardSettings

Mode of developer dashboard:

On – creates everytime the output at the end of the page content

Off – switch off developer dashboard and nothing is rendered

OnDemand – creates a DeveloperDashboard icon to make dashboard output visible as needed

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example of an oob publishing page

Now with the next Page Load, the troubleshooting output is created:

DeveloperDashboard Icon is displayed at the upper right side

image(exist only in OnDemand-Mode)

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How to use the Developer Dashboard?

Developer dashboard is designed to find performance bottleneck during the page load.

To get an overview about the whole page load performance take a look in the upper right side  on category “web server”. On my test environment the total time of page rendering  is 438.79 milli seconds.

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At the left side you will see the ASP.NET rendering process of all involved controls with their time to render. Here is makes sense to focus only on long running controls.

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In this case the longest operation is “EnsureListItemsData with 293,34 ms)

Because sharepoint controls will request data from database, the developer dashboard lists also corresponding sql requests with their execution time.

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If you click on the sql command than a popup windows display more details. The long running sql request on my test environment is “Declare @…”

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During this request i see the complete SQL query and the corresponding call stack to identify the correct control. Additionally at the end we see the IO Stats in case of a slow running SQL server based on too many IO-operations. 

One additional category exist for webparts to identify the slow running ones. In this case the ListView-Webaprt of the “Shared Document Library” is the slowest one.

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Regards

Patrick

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    very good post....

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    very good post....

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Hello Anders, thanks for the update, your are right, we move this in BETA-Time from FARM-Level to WebApplication-Level. So it's possible to activate the developer dashboard only for one single webapplication. For a live trouble shooting this will not increase a large overhead for all webapps, it focus only on one single webapp. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.administration.spwebservice.developerdashboardsettings(office.14).aspx regards patrick

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Thanks Nice post....

  • Anonymous
    March 24, 2010
    I think DeveloperDashboardEnabled has been depricated (and so has Set-SPFarm, i think its Set-SPFarmConfig now). Use objectmodel instead: [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebService]:: ContentService.DeveloperDashboardSettings.DisplayLevel = ([Enum]:: Parse([Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPDeveloperDashboardLevel], “On”));

  • Anonymous
    May 10, 2010
    Nice, Find the detail notes on the developer dashboard in my point of view, this also may help. http://praveenbattula.blogspot.com/2010/05/developer-dashboard-in-sharepoint-2010.html thanks -Praveen

  • Anonymous
    March 12, 2011
    Nice post. The way you written is appreciated sharepointsolution2010.blogspot.com/.../enablingdisabling-dashboard-with.html thanks

  • Anonymous
    April 05, 2011
    Thanks great tool

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    April 25, 2013
    Nice Post....

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