1. Grab the profiling token from **Monitoring > Requests Profiles** admin page
(highlighted in a blue in the image below).
![Profile token](img/request_profiling_token.png)
1. Pass the header `X-Profile-Token: <token>` and `X-Profile-Mode: <mode>`(where <mode> can be `execution` or `memory`) to the request you want to profile. You can use:
1. Pass the header `X-Profile-Token: <token>` and `X-Profile-Mode: <mode>`(where `<mode>` can be `execution` or `memory`) to the request you want to profile. You can use:
- Browser extensions. For example, [ModHeader](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/modheader/idgpnmonknjnojddfkpgkljpfnnfcklj) Chrome extension.
-`curl`. For example, `curl --header 'X-Profile-Token: <token>' --header 'X-Profile-Mode: <mode>' https://gitlab.example.com/group/project`.
1. Once request is finished (which will take a little longer than usual), you can
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