A developer performed Guidewire Profiler analysis on a web service.

When using theGuidewire Profiler, "Own Time" refers to time spent within a specific block of code that isn't attributed to sub-calls (like database queries or other profiled methods). A high Own Time in a web service indicates that significant processing is happening in a "blind spot" of the current profile.

To gain visibility into these blind spots, Guidewire recommendscreating custom Profiler Tags. By wrapping specific segments of your Gosu code with Profiler.push("TagName") and Profiler.pop(), you manually tell the Profiler to track that specific block as its own entry in the results tree. This breaks down the generic "Own Time" into specific, labeled sections, allowing you to pinpoint exactly which loop or calculation is causing the bottleneck.

Option D is a common distractor; while "stack frames" provide context, they don't help categorize logic that isn't currently being caught by the instrumented hooks. Options B and C are manual troubleshooting methods that are significantly less efficient than using the built-in diagnostic capabilities of the Profiler and can even skew performance results due to the overhead of I/O operations.