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# Understanding Performance Management

The Unisphere Performance Management application enables the user to gather, view, and analyze performance data to troubleshoot and optimize the storage systems.

Performance Management covers the following areas:

- Dashboards - Display predefined, user-defined custom dashboards, and templates.
- Charts - Create custom charts across multiple categories, metrics, time, or intervals.
- Analyze - Provide in-depth analysis on storage system data for various collection ranges.
- Heatmap - Display hardware instances represented as colored squares, with the color indicating utilization levels.
- Reports - Create, manage, and run performance reports.
- Real-Time Traces - Create, manage, and run performance real-time traces .
- Databases - Manage Performance database tasks, for example, back up, restore, delete, and also individual performance database information.
- Plan - Provide performance projection capacity dashboards displaying predicted future data that is based on linear projection.