With respect to this, the best bet would be to create something we can both iterate on that exhibits the behaviour you’re running into. I should also ask about the server you’re running this in.
benwilson512
Author of Craft GraphQL APIs in Elixir with Absinthe
mmartinson
@derekbrown did you end up with any further learnings from this? I’m working with a similar issue. Any useful resources to link?
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derekbrown
I didn’t unfortunately. But I do think that a lot of it is resolution. We made a couple of changes to batch resolvers that seemed to have helped. There were a couple of uncaught n+1 errors as well on our side. Still a lot of unexplained gaps though, but the response times are at least manageable now.
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benwilson512
Author of Craft GraphQL APIs in Elixir with Absinthe
The offer to investigate any runnable example stands! Do make sure to check out the persistent_term backend Absinthe.Schema.PersistentTerm — absinthe v1.11.0 which we’re promoting out of the Experimental namespace in the next release. It has proven to be both faster and easier to work with.
I’m seeing the original post was on Absinthe 1.5.0, and we definitely fixed an N^2 regression in our variable handling somewhere in a release between that and latest. Hopefully you’ve updated since!
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derekbrown
Yes! Forgot to mention that: we’re using PersistentTerm as well (have been since it was in PR last year), and it’s definitely provided gains as well. Huge thanks to @benwilson512 and team for that.
FWIW, when I say that our response times are manageable, I may have been understating. Our overall times have been reduced to a third of what they were.
It’s still a mystery to me exactly what’s happening, but it’s now a low priority mystery for us. 
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benwilson512
Author of Craft GraphQL APIs in Elixir with Absinthe
Awesome. Do note that once OTP 24 is released we’ve seen significant improvements from the JIT as well, so we expect the overhead to drop a further ~60% from that alone.
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tansan
Sorry to bring up an old thread, but is this still the recommended telemetry for absinthe in 2023?
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tansan
Is there a tutorial some where? I mainly want to see the performance on my queries with Abinsthe. If I set it up, would it show up in LiveDashboard?
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