Exercise: exploring Performance Recording on Tableau Server

The following exercise provides step-by-step instructions for doing so:

1. Navigate to an instance of Tableau Server.
2. On the toolbar, click on Settings:

3. In the resulting page, locate the Workbook Performance Metrics section and select Record workbook performance metrics.
4. Click on Save.

5. Navigate to a workbook of your choosing and open a view. Note that the ending portion of the URL is :iid=<n>.
6. Type :record_performance=yes& immediately before :iid=<n>. For example, http://localhost:8000/#/views/Finance/Taleof100Start-ups?:record_performance=yes&:iid=5. Note that the toolbar now includes a Performance link:

7. Click the Refresh icon on the toolbar. It is located to the left of Pause. Click on the Performance link and observe the resulting performance-recording dashboard that displays.

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