# Admin setting to enable or disable mini-profiler?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-setting-to-enable-or-disable-mini-profiler/14370
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** mini-profiler
**Created:** [April 1, 2014, 5:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-setting-to-enable-or-disable-mini-profiler/14370 "2014-04-01T17:40:29Z")
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### Author: ![tobiaseigen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tobiaseigen/32/539204_2.png) [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2024, 9:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-setting-to-enable-or-disable-mini-profiler/14370/17 "2024-01-05T21:14:40Z")

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I just personally fell prey to the lack of info in the UI about the mini-profiler, what it is, what it is called, why it is shown to me, and how to hide it. I set up sites but am not a developer, so don’t ever need to see it but have just gotten used to it.

At a minimum, I suggest that we update the documentation to explain the current behavior:

- new topic devoted to it here on meta or update it if it exists unless it exists and I didn’t find it 😅 , and include keywords people might use to look for it, and delete or update the topics about it and add a #miniprofiler (or is it #mini-profiler?) tag.
- update [discourse/docs/ADMIN-QUICK-START-GUIDE.md at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/docs/ADMIN-QUICK-START-GUIDE.md) to refer to miniprofiler and link to the meta topic

Beyond that, if possible I’d like to see help text for those who are confused about it and want to make it go away eg “Miniprofiler - press ALT+P to toggle display”.

The below seems to be a good step by step guide to adding it for a user on your site.

> [@Long loading times for user summary page with slow database](https://meta.discourse.org/t/long-loading-times-for-user-summary-page-with-slow-database/131870/6):
>
> n order to know exactly what is the problem:
> 
> 1. Edit the `app.yml` file and add your admin user email to `DISCOURSE_DEVELOPER_EMAILS`.
> 2. Rebuild
> 3. Load the slow page while logged in as the user set in step 1.
> 4. Share the result of the mini-profiler
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> ![image.png](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/6/8/680d71aed254fdfacfdb6e3a3d6292ff72d186e4.png)
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> ![image.png](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/a/9/a9335a17a103a59ff321b3b61a1620b306f9a145.png)
> 
> Share the contents from this and the expanded window:
> 
> ![image.png](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/6/4/64c9e5b982df72d522899db3e241c71d3d87b6d8.png)

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