How do I network profile a dedicated server

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Hi all I currently have a project running on a dedicated server and want to debug its network performance.

With the dedicated server running and clients connected I can run netprofile from the command prompt and create a network profile from the client. However this does not give me all the information i need. How can I run netprofile on the dedicated server itself and get information from the server.

Thanks.

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I have the same question. I haven’t been able to find the answer to this either.

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If starting the server with the netprofiler constantly running is an option you could use the command line option on server startup: networkprofiler=true
(the same way you would pass -log or LOG=myserverlog.txt , etc)
→ didn’t try it on an actually deployed standalone dedicated server, but it shouldn’t be different I guess?

or another approach that I think would work would be to make a ServerRPC from the client (bound to some debug input) which executes the netprofile command on the server.
(something like GetWorld()->Exec(GetWorld(), TEXT(“netprofile”)); )

(both approaches would assume that USE_NETWORK_PROFILER is not deactivated in the build process)

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Thank you so much for this.
I’ve confirmed that it works (at least the command-line option does).

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Need this in 2023. Any help will be appreciated.