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# GitLab Configuration **(CORE)**
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GitLab Performance Monitoring is disabled by default. To enable it and change any of its
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settings:
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1. Navigate to **Admin Area > Settings > Metrics and profiling**
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(`/admin/application_settings/metrics_and_profiling`).
1. Add the necessary configuration changes.
1. Restart all GitLab for the changes to take effect:
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- For Omnibus GitLab installations: `sudo gitlab-ctl restart`
- For installations from source: `sudo service gitlab restart`
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NOTE:
Removed [in GitLab 13.0 ](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/30786 ). Use the
[Prometheus integration ](../prometheus/index.md ) instead.
## Pending migrations
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When any migrations are pending, the metrics are disabled until the migrations
have been performed.
Read more on:
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- [Introduction to GitLab Performance Monitoring ](index.md )
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- [Grafana Install/Configuration ](grafana_configuration.md )