Performance Monitoring Flashcards

Which Pega workspace lets an administrator monitor requestors, background processing, and queue processors across nodes?

Answer: Admin Studio

Admin Studio provides system-level monitoring of nodes, requestors, and background processing.

Alert PEGA0035 indicates which condition?

Answer: A Page List property contains more elements than the configured threshold

PEGA0035 warns that a Page List has grown beyond the allowed number of elements, risking memory issues.

A team wants to identify which specific rules consume the most CPU time within a single requestor's thread. Which tool gives a rule-by-rule execution breakdown?

Answer: Performance Profiler

Performance Profiler records detailed per-rule execution timing for a thread.

Why should the Performance Profiler not be left running in a production environment?

Answer: It adds significant overhead and generates large output

Profiling captures detailed data for every rule, which slows the system and produces large files.

What is the main benefit of using a data page instead of repeatedly running the same lookup in each activity?

Answer: Data pages cache results, reducing redundant database or service calls

Data pages load data once and reuse it based on refresh strategy, reducing repeated I/O.

Where can a lead developer review guardrail warnings and the compliance score for an entire application?

Answer: Application Guardrails landing page

The Application Guardrails landing page summarizes warnings and compliance score across the application.

PAL shows a high number of database requests for a simple screen that displays the same reference data several times. What is the most likely design issue?

Answer: The reference data is reloaded instead of being sourced from a cached data page

Repeated database requests for the same reference data suggest it should be loaded once into a reusable data page.