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HEART performance.slow H-05001

Responses slow. Responses take much longer than normal.

CodeHEART performance.slow; inside a message "code": "performance.slow"
H-numberH-05001: area 05, code 001
Areaperformance: Speed, load, heat
Typical severitywarning. A product may set another for its own case.
Applies toServers, apps, gateways, any product that answers requests

Likely causes

How to fix or prevent it

  1. Look at what is slow: the alert gives the time taken against the normal time.
  2. Check the services it waits on, and their own speed.
  3. Check CPU, memory and disk use.
  4. Add capacity, or move heavy work to a quieter time.

What the HEART does by itself

It raises a warning when responses pass the product's stated limit, such as 1.5 s at the 95th percentile, and resolves it when they are back under it. A Playbook may clear a cache or throttle low-priority work, within its guards.

When to call service

If it lasts and you cannot find a cause in load, network or outside services.


Inside a message a code is written bare, "code": "storage.full". In logs, tickets, documents and searches it is written HEART storage.full. Things that simply happen, such as system.started, are event types, not faults. The codes are defined in Part 3, Section 5.4, and their H-numbers in Section 5.7. All of it, as data: fault-codes.json.

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