Best Practices for Dashboards

This page describes the recommended best practices for high-performance Sumo Logic dashboards.

• You may experience rate limiting when more than 20 queries run at the same time. Keep the number of panels under 20 for optimal dashboard performance.
• Optimize your queries to scan as little data as possible by using partitions or the narrowest source categories. When possible, also consider using scheduled views for optimal performance.
• For your most-viewed dashboards, enable Auto-Refresh at a five-minute interval. This places compatible panel queries into our continuous query pipeline, allowing for nearly instant execution.

Dashboard throttling

Sumo Logic implements multiple layers of throttling to ensure a balanced system load, which protects you and Sumo Logic from performance degradation. Throttling applies per user, as follows:

• Panel queries. Sumo Logic runs up to 10 panel queries at a time per user across all sessions. If a dashboard has more queries than that, the remaining queries start as earlier ones finish, so large dashboards may take longer to load. If a panel contains multiple queries, each query counts separately toward this limit.
• Template variable queries. Sumo Logic applies throttling to template variable queries separately, limiting them to a maximum of 10 concurrent queries per user across all sessions.
• Scheduled export. Sumo Logic applies throttling on scheduled exports to five concurrent jobs per user, each with a timeout of five minutes.

These throttling measures prevent performance degradation caused by spikes in load and traffic.