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title="Troubleshooting using metrics"
summary="Learn which metrics exist and how to use them for troubleshooting errors and performance issues."
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For a running {project_name} deployment it is important to understand how the system performs and whether it meets your service level objectives (SLOs).
For more details on SLOs, proceed to the <@links.observability id="keycloak-service-level-indicators" /> {section}.

This guide will provide directions to answer the question: "`What can I do when my SLOs are not met?`"

{project_name} consists of several components where an issue or misconfiguration of one of them can move your service level indicators to undesirable numbers.

A guidance provided by this guide is illustrated in the following example:

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*Observation:* Latency service level objective is not met.

*Metrics that indicate a problem*:

. {project_name}'s database connection pool is often exhausted, and there are threads queuing for a connection to be retrieved from the pool.
. {project_name}'s `users` cache hit ratio is at a low percentage, around 5%. This means only 1 out of 20 user searches is able to obtain user data from the cache and the rest needs to load it from the database.

*Possible mitigations suggested:*

* Increasing the `users` cache size to a higher number which would decrease the number of reads from the database.
* Increasing the number of connections in the connection pool. This would need to be checked with metrics for your database and tuning it for a higher load, for example, by increasing the number of available processors.

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[NOTE]
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* This guide focuses on {project_name} metrics.
Troubleshooting the database itself is out of scope.
* This guide provides general guidance.
You should always confirm the configuration change by conducting a performance test comparing the metrics in question for the old and the new configuration.
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[NOTE]
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Grafana dashboards for the metrics below can be found in <@links.observability id="grafana-dashboards"/> {section}.
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== List of {project_name} key metrics

* <@links.observability id="metrics-for-troubleshooting-keycloak"/>
* <@links.observability id="metrics-for-troubleshooting-jvm"/>
* <@links.observability id="metrics-for-troubleshooting-database"/>
* <@links.observability id="metrics-for-troubleshooting-http"/>
* Single site metrics (without external {jdgserver_name})
** <@links.observability id="metrics-for-troubleshooting-clustering-and-network"/>
** <@links.observability id="metrics-for-troubleshooting-embedded-caches"/>
* Multiple sites metrics (as described in <@links.ha id="introduction"/>)
** <@links.observability id="metrics-for-troubleshooting-embedded-caches-multi-site"/>
** <@links.observability id="metrics-for-troubleshooting-external-infinispan-multi-site"/>

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