This disclosure relates to a method, article of manufacture, and apparatus of adaptive storage system management for optimizing performance. In some embodiments, this includes polling attributes associated with a workload of a storage system to obtain corresponding values at a time instance, analyzing the values and the attributes to determine a need for modifying a set of the values corresponding to a set of the attributes when the workload is not at an optimized level, modifying the set of the values in response to the determination, and storing the time instance, the attributes, the values, and the modification.