# Best configurations for speeding up standalone discourse

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-configurations-for-speeding-up-standalone-discourse/162456
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** server-resources
**Created:** [August 30, 2020, 7:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-configurations-for-speeding-up-standalone-discourse/162456 "2020-08-30T07:39:37Z")
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### Author: ![marianord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/marianord/32/90502_2.png) [@marianord](https://meta.discourse.org/u/marianord)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2020, 12:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-configurations-for-speeding-up-standalone-discourse/162456/18 "2020-09-01T12:34:15Z")

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> [@nildarar](#):
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> Are there any special tools for identifying discourse performance bottlenecks?

Using something like Prometheus + Grafana can help you just to get the historical of the data, instead of seeing it live and then do some deeper analysis of what is happening.

> [@Discourse Prometheus](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prometheus-exporter-plugin-for-discourse/72666):
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> discourse2Summary Discourse Prometheus is the official [Prometheus](https://prometheus.io/) exporter for Discoursehammer_and_wrenchRepository Link [https://github.com/discourse/discourse-prometheus](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-prometheus)open_bookInstall Guide [How to install plugins in Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-plugins-in-discourse/19157) The Discourse Prometheus plugin collects key metrics from Discourse and exposes them in the /metrics path so prometheus can consume them. These metrics can be used to Graph all sorts of data like: Median and 99th percentile time…

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