Debugging and Performance Tuning in Pega Using PAL, Tracer, and Clipboard

Performance defects in Pega rarely present as a single, obvious fault. A slow harness render, an unexpected stage transition, a case that opens correctly but saves slowly, or a data page that intermittently returns stale values can all originate in very different layers of the runtime. Effective diagnosis depends on separating timing, execution flow, and in-memory state instead of treating them as one problem.