diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 6113f8e50..0fe059471 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ gem 'flag-icons-rails', '~> 3.4'
 gem 'iso-639', '~> 0.3.6'
 
 # Custom API client
-gem 'ontologies_api_client', git: 'https://github.com/ontoportal-lirmm/ontologies_api_ruby_client.git', branch: 'development'
+gem 'ontologies_api_client', git: 'https://github.com/ontoportal-lirmm/ontologies_api_ruby_client.git', branch: 'feature/add-rails-performance'
 
 # Ruby 2.7.8 pinned gems (to remove when migrating to Ruby >= 3.0)
 gem 'ffi', '~> 1.16.3'
@@ -115,6 +115,9 @@ gem 'omniauth-orcid'
 # Used to generate colors randomly
 gem "color", "~> 1.8"
 
+# Application performance monitoring
+gem 'rails_performance'
+
 group :staging, :production, :appliance do
   # Application performance monitoring
   gem 'newrelic_rpm'
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index 31fd0e01d..25d80728a 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 GIT
   remote: https://github.com/ontoportal-lirmm/ontologies_api_ruby_client.git
-  revision: 670ce6adfe77aeda97974414ab0ed4b6c5dc9469
-  branch: development
+  revision: c473aae92493c2e0de08f0af8ed5812349db9621
+  branch: feature/add-rails-performance
   specs:
     ontologies_api_client (2.2.0)
       activesupport (~> 7.0.4)
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ GIT
       multi_json
       oj
       parallel
+      rails_performance
       request_store
       spawnling (= 2.1.5)
 
@@ -104,6 +105,7 @@ GEM
       popper_js (>= 1.14.3, < 2)
       sassc-rails (>= 2.0.0)
     brakeman (5.4.1)
+    browser (5.3.1)
     bugsnag (6.27.1)
       concurrent-ruby (~> 1.0)
     builder (3.3.0)
@@ -139,25 +141,25 @@ GEM
     coderay (1.1.3)
     color (1.8)
     concurrent-ruby (1.3.4)
+    connection_pool (2.4.1)
     crack (1.0.0)
       bigdecimal
       rexml
     crass (1.0.6)
     css_parser (1.17.1)
       addressable
-    dalli (3.2.8)
     date (3.3.4)
     debug (1.9.2)
       irb (~> 1.10)
       reline (>= 0.3.8)
-    deepl-rb (2.5.3)
+    deepl-rb (3.0.2)
     diff-lcs (1.5.1)
     docile (1.4.1)
     domain_name (0.6.20240107)
     ed25519 (1.3.0)
     erubi (1.13.0)
     erubis (2.7.0)
-    excon (0.111.0)
+    excon (0.112.0)
     execjs (2.9.1)
     faraday (2.0.1)
       faraday-net_http (~> 2.0)
@@ -176,7 +178,7 @@ GEM
       sass-rails
     globalid (1.2.1)
       activesupport (>= 6.1)
-    graphql (2.3.14)
+    graphql (2.3.17)
       base64
       fiber-storage
     graphql-client (0.23.0)
@@ -203,7 +205,7 @@ GEM
     http-accept (1.7.0)
     http-cookie (1.0.7)
       domain_name (~> 0.5)
-    i18n (1.14.5)
+    i18n (1.14.6)
       concurrent-ruby (~> 1.0)
     i18n-tasks (0.9.37)
       activesupport (>= 4.0.2)
@@ -225,7 +227,7 @@ GEM
       activesupport (>= 3.0)
       nokogiri (>= 1.6)
     io-console (0.7.2)
-    irb (1.14.0)
+    irb (1.14.1)
       rdoc (>= 4.0.0)
       reline (>= 0.4.2)
     iso-639 (0.3.6)
@@ -245,7 +247,7 @@ GEM
       bindata
       faraday (~> 2.0)
       faraday-follow_redirects
-    jwt (2.8.2)
+    jwt (2.9.3)
       base64
     language_server-protocol (3.17.0.3)
     launchy (3.0.1)
@@ -287,12 +289,13 @@ GEM
     marcel (1.0.4)
     matrix (0.4.2)
     method_source (1.1.0)
-    mime-types (3.5.2)
+    mime-types (3.6.0)
+      logger
       mime-types-data (~> 3.2015)
-    mime-types-data (3.2024.0903)
+    mime-types-data (3.2024.1001)
     mini_mime (1.1.5)
     minitest (5.25.1)
-    msgpack (1.7.2)
+    msgpack (1.7.3)
     multi_json (1.15.0)
     multi_xml (0.6.0)
     multipart-post (2.4.1)
@@ -302,7 +305,7 @@ GEM
       time
     net-http (0.3.2)
       uri
-    net-imap (0.4.15)
+    net-imap (0.4.16)
       date
       net-protocol
     net-pop (0.1.2)
@@ -315,9 +318,9 @@ GEM
       net-ssh (>= 5.0.0, < 8.0.0)
     net-smtp (0.5.0)
       net-protocol
-    net-ssh (7.2.3)
+    net-ssh (7.3.0)
     netrc (0.11.0)
-    newrelic_rpm (9.13.0)
+    newrelic_rpm (9.14.0)
     nio4r (2.7.3)
     nokogiri (1.15.6-x86_64-linux)
       racc (~> 1.4)
@@ -328,7 +331,7 @@ GEM
       rack (>= 1.2, < 4)
       snaky_hash (~> 2.0)
       version_gem (~> 1.1)
-    oj (3.16.5)
+    oj (3.16.6)
       bigdecimal (>= 3.0)
       ostruct (>= 0.2)
     omniauth (2.1.2)
@@ -338,8 +341,8 @@ GEM
     omniauth-github (2.0.1)
       omniauth (~> 2.0)
       omniauth-oauth2 (~> 1.8)
-    omniauth-google-oauth2 (1.1.3)
-      jwt (>= 2.0)
+    omniauth-google-oauth2 (1.2.0)
+      jwt (>= 2.9)
       oauth2 (~> 2.0)
       omniauth (~> 2.0)
       omniauth-oauth2 (~> 1.8)
@@ -369,13 +372,15 @@ GEM
     psych (5.1.2)
       stringio
     public_suffix (5.1.1)
-    puma (5.6.8)
+    puma (5.6.9)
       nio4r (~> 2.0)
     racc (1.8.1)
     rack (2.2.9)
     rack-protection (3.2.0)
       base64 (>= 0.1.0)
       rack (~> 2.2, >= 2.2.4)
+    rack-session (1.0.2)
+      rack (< 3)
     rack-test (2.1.0)
       rack (>= 1.3)
     rails (7.0.4)
@@ -402,6 +407,11 @@ GEM
     rails-i18n (7.0.9)
       i18n (>= 0.7, < 2)
       railties (>= 6.0.0, < 8)
+    rails_performance (1.2.2)
+      browser
+      railties
+      redis
+      redis-namespace
     railties (7.0.4)
       actionpack (= 7.0.4)
       activesupport (= 7.0.4)
@@ -419,6 +429,28 @@ GEM
     recaptcha (5.9.0)
       json
     redcarpet (3.6.0)
+    redis (5.3.0)
+      redis-client (>= 0.22.0)
+    redis-actionpack (5.4.0)
+      actionpack (>= 5, < 8)
+      redis-rack (>= 2.1.0, < 4)
+      redis-store (>= 1.1.0, < 2)
+    redis-activesupport (5.3.0)
+      activesupport (>= 3, < 8)
+      redis-store (>= 1.3, < 2)
+    redis-client (0.22.2)
+      connection_pool
+    redis-namespace (1.11.0)
+      redis (>= 4)
+    redis-rack (3.0.0)
+      rack-session (>= 0.2.0)
+      redis-store (>= 1.2, < 2)
+    redis-rails (5.0.2)
+      redis-actionpack (>= 5.0, < 6)
+      redis-activesupport (>= 5.0, < 6)
+      redis-store (>= 1.2, < 2)
+    redis-store (1.11.0)
+      redis (>= 4, < 6)
     regexp_parser (2.9.2)
     reline (0.5.10)
       io-console (~> 0.5)
@@ -429,14 +461,14 @@ GEM
       http-cookie (>= 1.0.2, < 2.0)
       mime-types (>= 1.16, < 4.0)
       netrc (~> 0.8)
-    rexml (3.3.7)
-    rouge (4.3.0)
+    rexml (3.3.8)
+    rouge (4.4.0)
     rspec-core (3.13.1)
       rspec-support (~> 3.13.0)
     rspec-expectations (3.13.3)
       diff-lcs (>= 1.2.0, < 2.0)
       rspec-support (~> 3.13.0)
-    rspec-mocks (3.13.1)
+    rspec-mocks (3.13.2)
       diff-lcs (>= 1.2.0, < 2.0)
       rspec-support (~> 3.13.0)
     rspec-rails (7.0.1)
@@ -458,7 +490,7 @@ GEM
       rubocop-ast (>= 1.32.2, < 2.0)
       ruby-progressbar (~> 1.7)
       unicode-display_width (>= 2.4.0, < 3.0)
-    rubocop-ast (1.32.2)
+    rubocop-ast (1.32.3)
       parser (>= 3.3.1.0)
     ruby-progressbar (1.13.0)
     ruby2_keywords (0.0.5)
@@ -521,13 +553,12 @@ GEM
     time (0.4.0)
       date
     timeout (0.4.1)
-    turbo-rails (2.0.6)
+    turbo-rails (2.0.10)
       actionpack (>= 6.0.0)
-      activejob (>= 6.0.0)
       railties (>= 6.0.0)
     tzinfo (2.0.6)
       concurrent-ruby (~> 1.0)
-    unicode-display_width (2.5.0)
+    unicode-display_width (2.6.0)
     uri (0.13.1)
     version_gem (1.1.4)
     view_component (2.83.0)
@@ -539,7 +570,7 @@ GEM
       activemodel (>= 6.0.0)
       bindex (>= 0.4.0)
       railties (>= 6.0.0)
-    webmock (3.23.1)
+    webmock (3.24.0)
       addressable (>= 2.8.0)
       crack (>= 0.3.2)
       hashdiff (>= 0.4.0, < 2.0.0)
@@ -572,7 +603,6 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   capybara
   chart-js-rails
   color (~> 1.8)
-  dalli
   debug
   deepl-rb
   ed25519 (>= 1.2, < 2.0)
@@ -582,10 +612,10 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   haml (~> 5.1)
   haml-rails
   html2haml
-  i18n
+  i18n (~> 1.14.6)
   i18n-tasks
   i18n-tasks-csv (~> 1.1)
-  importmap-rails
+  importmap-rails (= 2.0.1)
   inline_svg
   iso-639 (~> 0.3.6)
   jquery-rails
@@ -610,7 +640,10 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   puma (~> 5.0)
   rails (= 7.0.4)
   rails-i18n (~> 7.0.0)
+  rails_performance
   recaptcha (~> 5.9.0)
+  redis
+  redis-rails
   rest-client
   rspec-rails
   rubocop
@@ -629,4 +662,4 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   will_paginate (~> 3.0)
 
 BUNDLED WITH
-   2.4.22
+   2.3.23
diff --git a/config/initializers/rails_performance.rb b/config/initializers/rails_performance.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..639b62164
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/initializers/rails_performance.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+require 'rails_performance'
+RailsPerformance.setup do |config|
+  config.redis = Redis::Namespace.new("#{Rails.env}-rails-performance", redis: Rails.cache.redis)
+  config.duration = 7.days
+
+  config.debug = false # currently not used>
+  config.enabled = true
+
+  # default path where to mount gem
+  config.mount_at = '/rails/performance'
+
+  # protect your Performance Dashboard with HTTP BASIC password
+  config.http_basic_authentication_enabled = false
+  config.http_basic_authentication_user_name = 'rails_performance'
+  config.http_basic_authentication_password = 'password12'
+
+  # if you need an additional rules to check user permissions
+  config.verify_access_proc = proc { |controller| true }
+  # for example when you have `current_user`
+  # config.verify_access_proc = proc { |controller| controller.current_user && controller.current_user.admin? }
+
+  # You can ignore endpoints with Rails standard notation controller#action
+  # config.ignored_endpoints = ['HomeController#contact']
+
+  # store custom data for the request
+  # config.custom_data_proc = proc do |env|
+  #   request = Rack::Request.new(env)
+  #   {
+  #     email: request.env['warden'].user&.email, # if you are using Devise for example
+  #     user_agent: request.env['HTTP_USER_AGENT']
+  #   }
+  # end
+
+  # config home button link
+  config.home_link = '/'
+  config.skipable_rake_tasks = ['webpacker:compile']
+  config.include_rake_tasks = false
+  config.include_custom_events = true
+end if defined?(RailsPerformance)
diff --git a/config/routes.rb b/config/routes.rb
index b28c26ec0..6ae212853 100644
--- a/config/routes.rb
+++ b/config/routes.rb
@@ -4,7 +4,15 @@
   root to: 'home#index'
   mount LetterOpenerWeb::Engine, at: "/letter_opener" if Rails.env.development?
 
-  get'/tools', to: 'home#tools'
+  constraints(lambda { |req| req.session[:user].admin? }) do
+    mount RailsPerformance::Engine, at: '/rails/performance'
+  end
+
+  constraints(lambda { |req| !req.session[:user].admin? }) do
+    get '/rails/performance', to: redirect('/login?redirect=/rails/performance')
+  end
+
+  get '/tools', to: 'home#tools'
   get 'auth/:provider/callback', to: 'login#create_omniauth'
   get 'locale/:language', to: 'language#set_locale_language'
   get 'metadata_export/index'
@@ -44,12 +52,10 @@
 
   resources :concepts
 
-
   scope :ontologies do
     get ':ontology/concepts' => 'concepts#index'
     get ':ontology/concepts/show', to: 'concepts#show'
 
-
     get ':ontology/instances', to: 'instances#index'
     get ':ontology/instances/show', to: 'instances#show'
 
@@ -63,7 +69,6 @@
     get ':ontology/collections/show', to: 'collections#show'
   end
 
-
   resources :ontologies do
     resources :submissions do
       get 'edit_properties'
@@ -74,8 +79,6 @@
     get 'subscriptions'
   end
 
-
-
   resources :login
 
   resources :admin, only: [:index]
@@ -115,7 +118,6 @@
   get '/annotatorplus', to: 'annotator#annotator_plus'
   get '/ncbo_annotatorplus', to: 'annotator#ncbo_annotator_plus'
 
-
   resources :virtual_appliance
 
   get 'change_requests/create_synonym'
@@ -166,7 +168,6 @@
   match '/ontologies/:acronym/submissions/:id/edit_metadata' => 'submissions#edit_metadata', via: [:get, :post]
   get '/ontologies_filter', to: 'ontologies#ontologies_filter'
 
-
   get 'ontologies_selector', to: 'ontologies#ontologies_selector'
   get 'ontologies_selector/results', to: 'ontologies#ontologies_selector_results'