Adobe Commerce best practice: conducting critical actions in Admin

It is best practice not to conduct critical actions in the Commerce Admin panel during business hours to avoid performance degradation.

Examples of critical actions:

• Save (update) a product attribute.
• Flush caches after import.
• Move product-subcategory to another category.

These critical actions lead to cache invalidation (a procedure for one or more objects that removes data regarding the objects from all caches) and cause a significant negative performance impact on the site during business hours, and can potentially be a root cause of site outages.

Affected products and versions

• Adobe Commerce on-premises, all supported versions
• Adobe Commerce on cloud infrastructure, all supported versions

Best practice

Perform any critical actions during off-business hours.

Related reading

• Private content: Invalidate private content in our developer documentation
• Hardware recommendations: Caches in our developer documentation
• Advanced setup: Set up Redis in our developer documentation
• Varnish's What is cache invalidation?