Can we expect to see a Time Interval of a lower resolution at some point across all of the analytics pages? This is one feature that existed with the old Developer Stats page that was nice to have - you could breakdown Visits/Revenue by Hourly, Daily, or Monthly. If I’m looking at the revenue performance of my experience over the last year, I might wish to view the data by each calendar month.
Currently, you have to add it up manually or (in most cases) export the data externally. It’d be nice to have this simple functionality back.
Speaking of the MicroProfiler, can we get a button for it on the View tab and a shortcut as well in roblox studio/client? I didnt even know I could see the MicroProfiler on the server side because to see you have to run a client instance, press esc and enable it, but sometimes I am testing with the server only which forces me to close the session, run a client, enable microprofiler, close the session and start a new server only one.
CTRL + F6 is the shortcut to open the microprofiler either on server or client apparently!
Hopefully this means we’re going to be getting more options when it comes to managing server resources (?) Perhaps even the ability to natively “reset” a server at any given time if it’s resource usage gets too high? Overall still a nice update and I’m sure this’ll help out in trying to figure out why servers/ people’re lagging in game.
Perhaps in the future, compute efficiency can provide a very small boost in the algorithm as we are costing Roblox less money? This could also incentivize developers to make better use of server computing.
Can we get increased server memory or better tools for server memory usage & optimization? I know of many creators that have great ambitions on the platform, but are limited to the server memory limit.
Here is a post asking for the same thing with lots of valid reasoning and with many supporters and likes of this idea, it’s very wanted:
Here is my AMA post on this with (I think) the most likes as a question (60 likes as of posting):
Furthermore, it doesn’t help when there is also a server memory leak with deleted models:
If we can’t get increaded server memory, can we have better tools for specifically server memory usage, optimization, and specific points in which causes memory usage such as certain models, objects, etc.?
Since this thread is about performance, I feel like this is a good time to ask what the Script Activity number in Script Performance measures again. Some other things requested were linked above, but we need lower-level memory tools in Studio (such as a nil space explorer, or the ability to monitor Luau’s GC behaviour [or even manually invoke it, cough collectgarbage]).
I feel like a whole plethora of memory tools could be added to Studio that would allow me to see how much memory an Instance (C side, not the lua prototype) is taking up, or the raw memory size of a table/closure in Lua. gcinfo only returns the size of the heap in the entire VM which is too blunt of a number, memory categories in performance stats also measure the whole thread, which is also too blunt.
On the main topic, it would be useful to see this information without needing to sit in a game for multiple hours for sneaky memory leaks and performance issues to actually show themselves.
This is a bit greenwashy, the major benefit is that it costs Roblox less to run servers with high efficiency. Will Roblox be using this metric to affect discoverability of games in the future.
Since the obvious end goal is to reduce server costs for roblox, wouldn’t it make more sense to incentivize developers who actively try to optimize the server side of things by passing on part of the cost savings and giving them a greater share of revenue?
Otherwise for the vast majority of experiences the end users won’t really notice much of a difference if the server takes 6ms to compute a frame or 30 ms.
This is maybe personal, but I am not a fan of the Microprofiler. I wish Roblox were to add into this new feature the average script’s performance, physics performance, and other main things.
My compute efficiency is terrible, and I am still trying to get down the root cause of this issue in my game. The Script Activity of my Main Script is on 4% (the only Server Script which initializes modules of the game and handles everything). With the lack of information on Script Activity is really hard to know whether that’s even good or not.
I have noticed a terrible performance in physics after some time in my game as well, I enabled StreamingEnabled thinking it would help with it, and it didn’t improve a single thing except decreasing 100MB on the client. All physics start acting up slow after some period of time.
Now get this, the stuff in my game anchors when players are not within the required radius, this means the animals in my game stop moving and objects that are using HingeConstraint to rotate are also stopped until a player gets nearby.
Despite me taking these measurements, I have no idea still of what’s causing this slow physics issue. As of now, I can tell you that the physics for animals are handled by the server, mainly because I don’t want exploiters moving the animals around or throwing them to the void glitching the game. There is also a delay at the time of detecting whether this animal reached its destination when the player has ownership of it.
That said, please add more areas to look along with this graph to narrow down the features I have to look into. Every time I open the Microprofiler tool, I just see bars and numbers that are hard to interpret for me and also because of the weird wording for some.
This ^, I think in general ROBLOX should be more transparent with developer costs but this is not the thread for that. (Also want to point out that there is a huge difference between a 6 ms frame and a 30 ms frame, 30 ms is a server running at 30 fps which is half of what it should be running at)
Anyways, another W for the analytics team! Are there any plans to allow us to see a more in depth breakdown of performance usage per script?
~60fps heartbeat, 2gb mem usage but 16% compute efficiency, what?
This information unlike other metrics is extremely vague and fails to help me diagnose what changes need to be made.
Will there ever be options to support games that Roblox’s servers just fundamentally cannot run right now? For example games with very large amounts of simulated parts or with complex building and wiring mechanics. Right now you’re just SOL if Luau isn’t fast enough to run it all, because Roblox is going to keep running the server on a Pentium from 2007 no matter how much you wish for a CPU from the last decade.
