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title: Performance
description: Scale considerations when building Kibana features: data volume, cardinality, bandwidth, and the scenarios your feature must handle.
url: https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/kibana/tree/main/extend/contributing/principles/performance
products:
  - Kibana
---

# Performance
Build with scalability in mind.
- Consider data with many fields
- Consider data with high cardinality fields
- Consider large data sets, that span a long time range
- Consider slow internet and low bandwidth environments

[Read more about performance.](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/kibana/tree/main/extend/key-concepts/performance/plugin-performance-and-optimization)