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# Tableau Server Performance Overview

When you take the time to understand the performance of Tableau Server, you make it easier to serve your users by improving the efficiency of Tableau Server. Although every server environment is unique, and there are many variables that can impact performance, the general steps that you take to understand and act on performance data in Tableau Server are the same.

- **Notifications**. Configure email notifications for important server events. For example, you can receive notifications when server processes become unavailable and when the server is running out of disk space.
- **Monitoring**. Collect and analyze data about Tableau Server to understand how well the server is performing.
- **Tuning**. Make adjustments to tasks, process configurations, and more to improve the performance of Tableau Server.
- **Troubleshooting**. Identify bottlenecks in resources, workbooks, and more to improve the performance of Tableau Server.