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Debug performance problems in a distributed system

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MicrosoftSystem designLast asked Dec 2025

A distributed service has become slow. Walk through how you find out why: metrics, tracing and logs, finding the slow component, common causes (hot partitions, lock contention, retries, garbage collection, network), and how you confirm a fix.

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