This has been around for some time but I have never used it or heard of others using it.

It is really easy and gives some helpful hints of where and what takes time in your code.

In your agent, simply check the Profile check box (security tab):

The run the agent and turn to the agent in the designer, right click and choose:

 

The resulting report will look like this: 

resizeImage Profile

2007-10-21 10:31:13 CEDT
Elapsed time: 361 msec
Methods profiled: 10
Total measured time: 0 msec

	Method	Operation	Calls	Time
Document	GetItemValue		4	0
Document	HasItem		2	0
Document	Save		1	0
Document	ReplaceItemValue		1	0
Document	GetAttachment		1	0
Session	UserName	Get	1	0
EmbeddedObject	ExtractFile		1	0
AgentContext	CurrentDatabase	Get	1	0
AgentContext	DocumentContext	Get	1	0
Session	AgentContext	Get	1	0

Nice post, I've never used it myself either, will come in handy.

Thanks