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title: About timescaledb-tune | Tiger Data Docs
description: Automatically tune your TimescaleDB database to match your system resources and PostgreSQL version
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Get better performance by tuning your TimescaleDB database to match your system resources and PostgreSQL version. `timescaledb-tune` is an open source command line tool that analyzes and adjusts your database settings.

## Install timescaledb-tune

`timescaledb-tune` is packaged with binary releases of TimescaleDB. If you installed TimescaleDB from any binary release, including Docker, you already have access. For more install instructions, see the [GitHub repository](https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb-tune).

## Tune your database with timescaledb-tune

Run `timescaledb-tune` from the command line. The tool analyzes your `postgresql.conf` file to provide recommendations for memory, parallelism, write-ahead log, and other settings. These changes are written to your `postgresql.conf`. They take effect on the next restart.

1. **Run timescaledb-tune**

   At the command line, run `timescaledb-tune`. To accept all recommendations automatically, include the `--yes` flag.

   Terminal window

   ```
   timescaledb-tune
   ```

2. **Respond to prompts**

   If you didn’t use the `--yes` flag, respond to each prompt to accept or reject the recommendations. The changes are written to your `postgresql.conf`.

For detailed instructions and other options, see the documentation in the [Github repository](https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb-tune).