Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “performance”
Need help on how to monitor IIS? This guide covers how to cover the basics including HTTP ping checks, IIS Application Pools, and important Windows Performance Counters. We also take a look at how to use an application performance management system to simplify all of this and get more advanced IIS performance monitoring for ASP.NET applications. IIS Performance Monitoring Topics: …
Having IIS performance problems? Do you have w3wp.exe high CPU usage? In this article, we will discuss some tips to identify what is causing high CPU usage for your ASP.NET web applications. There are a lot of reasons that your IIS worker process (w3wp.exe) could be using a lot of CPU. We will cover some of the top reasons and how …
One of our .NET background services running as an Azure Worker Role uses a lot of CPU and runs on a bunch of servers. I decided to spend some time today to see if I could troubleshoot high CPU usage in production. I documented how I went about solving the problem with ANTS and Process Hacker so hopefully, it could help others! …
Everyone wants to ship their code faster. Agile development and all the variants of it have helped companies release software more often and spend less time in large, waterfall planning and project management. Agile development still has one big problem… confidence in software deployments. Developers have no idea if they are really ready to ship their new version. Does this …
Many of us have been in “that” situation; the app is slowing to a crawl, and memory consumption is spiking through the roof. Is it a memory leak? Have the web gremlins finally broke through the firewall and found our system? So much time and energy is wasted trying to find out. At Stackify, every millisecond spent processing a transaction counts, …
Performance Tools for .NET and ASP.NET One of the best things about being a .NET developer is all the amazing development tools that can make your life easier. This blog post is a list of the various types of ASP.NET tools at your disposal for finding and optimizing ASP.NET performance problems. Depending on the task, some of these tools will …
Intro Elasticsearch is a distributed search server based on Lucene and it can be used to search a wide range of documents. It is written in Java and runs as a service with a RESTful web API. Elasticsearch is the second most popular enterprise search engine At Stackify, we use Elasticsearch for Errors, Logs and APM data. Thus, it was …
