Widget Render-Time Monitoring

If you want to know where your time is spent

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In the ancient past, Liferay had a feature to discover individual portlet's rendering times. It looks like this got lost with the move to OSGi -  but it's also reasonably simple to replace. Especially when it's for portlets only (fragments are still on the to-do list)

Some portlets take longer than others. While that's ok - they typically provide more value and dynamic content - you might want to limit their use to the less frequented page and not have them on your most public landing page.

Here's a quick proof-of-concept that you can use to display each individual widget's rendering time. It's also a sample for introducing a PortletFilter to each and every existing portlet in the system.


Let me know if you find it useful, discover bugs, or have extensions that you'd like to see in there.

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One doesn't stop learning: The old feature is still there, runtime-configurable through Control Panel / Platform / Infrastructure / Monitoring. The UI however is unchanged from the ancient one: The results will be hidden within a HTML comment close to the end of the page. Not the most comfortable place to find the results in. ​​​​​​​Thank you, Daniel Reuther, for pointing this out.