Magento 2 Slow Queries: How to Find and Fix Them

If your Magento store is slow, the database is almost always the first place to look. A single unoptimized query running on every page load can add hundreds of milliseconds to your response time — and on a store with thousands of products, slow queries are almost inevitable. Here's the complete playbook. Step 1: Enable the slow query log MySQL and MariaDB have a built-in slow query log. Enable it on your server: SET GLOBAL slow_query_log = 'ON' ; SET GLOBAL long_query_time = 1 ; SET GLOBAL slow_