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title: "Analyzing Microsoft Sharepoint Performance"
slug: "analyzing-microsoft-sharepoint-performance"
updated: 2023-01-06T15:50:01Z
published: 2023-01-06T15:50:00Z
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# Analyzing Microsoft Sharepoint Performance

## Overview

There is key information available in the Response header of sharefile pages in Sharepoint, and you can make use of Catchpoint's [Insights](/v1/docs/insights) feature to capture those headers and monitor Sharepoint's performance.

### **What are those metrics and what do they tell us?**

The following metrics found in Sharepoint's headers can help you identify server-specific performance issues.

- **SPRequestDuration (ms)**: The amount of time the server spent processing the page request
- **(SP)IISLatency (ms)**: The amount of time the page request waited on   the server before getting processed
- **X-SharePointHealthScore**: This is the value, from zero to ten, that   indicates how heavily loaded the SharePoint Server was at the time when the page was served. A score of zero means the server is not under load, while a score of ten means the server is overloaded. Ideally, this value should be zero or close to it.

### **How to capture these values**

- **Test Setup:** You can use a web transaction test to script the flow,   or you can use the existing catchpoint  [SAAS templates](https://docs.catchpoint.com/docs/SAAS-test-templates) available in the portal.

![Screenshot 2022-10-24 110738.png](https://cdn.document360.io/cb4af8f9-6751-4fd2-b39c-07aae832badb/Images/Documentation/Screenshot%202022-10-24%20110738%281%29.png)

![image.png](https://cdn.document360.io/cb4af8f9-6751-4fd2-b39c-07aae832badb/Images/Documentation/image%284%29.png)

- **Insights:** Once you have the test ready, youe can use the   [Insights](https://docs.catchpoint.com/docs/insights) (indicators) to capture these metrics.   Please find the below insight details.

| **Insight name** | **Regex** |
| --- | --- |
| SP-iis-latency | `spiislatency:\s(\d\*\\.\*\d\*)` |
| SP request duration | `sprequestduration:\s(\d\*\\.\*\d\*)` |
| Sharepoint health score | `x-sharepointhealthscore:\s(\d\*\\.\*\d\*)` |

In our internal testing we captured the server performance issue below. In the graph we can see there is a spike in **Response** and **Wait** time which can be correlated with the spike in **SP request duration**. This shows the spoke was not due to a network issue, *but the amount of time the server took to process the request was high.*

![3.png](https://cdn.document360.io/cb4af8f9-6751-4fd2-b39c-07aae832badb/Images/Documentation/360053054771-3.png)