Performance analysis in Glide is a tool designed to help troubleshoot and optimize the performance of your app by identifying which columns take the most time to compute data. This tool can be activated in the team settings menu and is essential for keeping your app running smoothly, especially as it scales in complexity.
Key Features of Performance Analysis
Once activated, performance analysis offers insights into how different columns in your tables perform by using two primary indicators:
Green Indicator: This means the computation time for the column is fast.
Yellow Indicator: This signals that the column takes longer to compute.
In every table, performance analysis arranges columns from left to right, with those requiring the most computation time appearing on the far left. The farther left a column is, the more time it takes to compute its data.
How to Activate Performance Analysis
To activate Performance Analysis in Glide, follow these steps:
Go to Team Settings: Open your Glide app and navigate to the Team Settings menu.
Find Performance Analysis: Look for the Performance Analysis option within the settings.
Enable the Tool: Toggle the option to activate Performance Analysis for your team.
Optimizing Columns with High Computation Time
When you see yellow indicators in your performance analysis, it suggests that a column is slower and may need reconfiguration. Columns with complex queries or operations, such as query columns, often take more time to compute. In these cases, you might want to consider changing such columns to more efficient types, like multi-relation columns, to improve performance.
By carefully reviewing and optimizing these columns, you can significantly improve the performance of your Glide app, ensuring that it runs efficiently for all users.