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+   performance_tracking
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+Galaxy Performance Tracking
+===========================
+
+Tracking performance over time and identifying slow queries in your Galaxy can be an extremely important thing to do, especially for larger Galaxies.
+
+Most performance tracking requires sending metrics to a metrics collection server such as `Graphite <http://graphiteapp.org/>`__ or `StatsD <https://github.com/etsy/statsd/>`__. This document assumes you have already deployed a metrics server.
+
+uWSGI
+-----
+
+As you have certainly switched to uWSGI from the default paste server, there is some built-in uWSGI support for performance logging. You can send uWSGI's internal metrics to a carbon (Graphite) server by setting the carbon option in your galaxy.ini:
+
+.. code-block:: ini
+
+   [uwsgi]
+   socket = ...
+   carbon = 127.0.0.1:2003
+
+Or a StatsD server via:
+
+.. code-block:: ini
+
+   [uwsgi]
+   socket = ...
+   statsd-push = 127.0.0.1:8125
+
+The `official documentation <http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Metrics.html#stats-pushers>`__ contains further information on uWSGI and stats servers. In the `uWSGI Stats Server <http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/StatsServer.html>` documentation, you can see an example of the sort of information that you will be able to collect.
+
+API / Route Timing Statistics
+-----------------------------
+
+Galaxy provides middleware to automatically log the amount of time controllers take to execute and to send that data to a stats server. Using the stats server of your choice, you can calculate the relevant statistics to ensure that your Galaxy server is performing as expected.
+
+The statsD configuration requires setting the following:
+
+.. code-block:: ini
+
+    statsd_host=127.0.0.1
+    statsd_port=8125
+    statsd_prefix=galaxy
+
+And the graphite configuration is very similar:
+
+.. code-block:: ini
+
+    graphite_host=127.0.0.1
+    graphite_port=2003
+    graphite_prefix=galaxy
+
+Most people visualize the statistics using something like `Grafana <https://grafana.com/>`__:
+
+.. image:: grafana.png