# About the Performance Analyzer category

**URL:** https://forum.opensearch.org/t/about-the-performance-analyzer-category/20
**Category:** Performance Analyzer
**Created:** [March 1, 2019, 9:17pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/about-the-performance-analyzer-category/20 "2019-03-01T21:17:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![carlmead](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.opensearch.org/carlmead/32/38_2.png) [@carlmead](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/carlmead)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2019, 9:17pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/about-the-performance-analyzer-category/20/1 "2019-03-01T21:17:10Z")

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Discuss using Performance Analyzer and PerfTop to get deep visibility into system bottlenecks.

Performance Analyzer documentation: [Performance Analyzer - Open Distro Documentation](https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch-docs/docs/pa/)

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### Author: ![kris](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.opensearch.org/kris/32/2208_2.png) [@kris](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/kris)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2023, 5:17pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/about-the-performance-analyzer-category/20/2 "2023-02-07T17:17:54Z")

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