# How can I check if my Discourse is overloaded and needs an upgrade?

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**Created:** [2015 年12 月 29 日 08:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-check-if-my-discourse-is-overloaded-and-needs-an-upgrade/37214 "2015-12-29T08:04:44Z")\
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作者： ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
发布日期： [2016 年2 月 18 日 05:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-check-if-my-discourse-is-overloaded-and-needs-an-upgrade/37214/7 "2016-02-18T05:45:53Z")

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The _general_ answer to this question is to look at your Digital Ocean droplet graphs:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/8/e/8e3a08d4c09f1f4060ccf3e6b6cc924ec101f16a.png)

(above is the last year of [http://discourse.codinghorror.com](http://discourse.codinghorror.com))

Anything weird with Disk or CPU, super high peaks, you need to upsize your droplet.

Remember when you upsize the droplet to increase the number of unicorn workers, and the amount of memory allocated to Postgres.

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