Network Management

SolarWinds Performance Analysis (PerfStack)

Performance Analysis (PerfStack™) dashboards can be used for troubleshooting projects that visually correlate data from multiple SolarWinds products and entity types on a single page for easier analysis of issues, to create ad-hoc reports, to help identify root causes of intermittent issues, and more confidently make data-driven decisions.

First published date

10/30/2018 2:27 PM

Last published date

9/2/2026 8:16 PM

Overview

This article discusses the use of Solarwinds Performance Analysis (Perfstack).

Product section

Orion Platform

Resolution

Performance Analysis (PerfStack™) dashboards are a feature for troubleshooting projects that visually correlate historical time series data from multiple SolarWinds products and entity types in a single view to analyze issues, create ad-hoc reports, identify root causes of intermittent issues, and make data-driven decisions on infrastructure changes. Continuously running of real time polling in performance analysis will have an effect on resources of your Orion Server. We highly recommend to use real time polling for troubleshooting purposes.

PerfStack dashboards became available with SolarWinds Orion Platform 2017.1.

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