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As of version 3.1.0 of Pentaho Data Integration, we are introducing a way to track the performance of individual steps in a transformation. This is an important tool that allows you to fine-tune performance of transformation because that performance is determined by the slowest step in the transformation.
A check list for PDI performance tuning can be found here.
Enabling monitoring
You can enable the step performance monitoring in the transformation settings dialog:
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