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page_title: Performance Tips
page_description: Grafana performance tips
page_keywords: grafana, performance, documentation
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# Performance tips

## Graphite

Graphite 0.9.13 adds a much needed feature to the JSON rendering API
that is very important for Grafana. If you are experiencing slow load &
rendering times for large time ranges then it is most likely caused by
running Graphite 0.9.12 or lower.

The latest version of Graphite adds a `maxDataPoints` parameter to the
JSON render API, without this feature Graphite can return hundreds of
thousands of data points per graph, which can hang your browser. Be sure
to upgrade to
[0.9.13](http://graphite.readthedocs.org/en/latest/releases/0_9_13.html).


