August 2008 Archive on MVolo's Blog

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The holy grail: Automatically diagnose IIS and ASP.NET website hangs
May 21, 2013

We finally did it. LeanSentry now automatically detects and diagnoses IIS and ASP.NET hangs Read More...

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Come support us at TechEd 2013 and get awesome stuff!
May 15, 2013

Are you going to TechEd this year? Be sure to come see us, and get some awesome stuff - including an exclusive LeanSentry discount, and a chance to win a Microsoft Surface! We've been working hard to to bring better monitoring...

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Things you still cant do with ASP.NET modules on IIS
Apr 23, 2013

Even with the ASP.NET Integrated Pipeline on IIS, there are things you just can't do with ASP.NET modules. Here is a list of them, and why you should probably never do them. Read More...

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Troubleshoot hanging requests on IIS in 3 steps
Apr 14, 2013

Your users are complaining that the site is loading slowly, or you are making requests to your application and they are hanging. Here is my preferred method for diagnosing hanging requests on IIS servers: Read More...

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Manage IIS/ASP.NET applications easier with smart alerts
Apr 09, 2013

Its been a big month for LeanSentry! We've released several big features to help make supporting and troubleshooting IIS/ASP.NET apps way easier, including smart alerts, automatic error highlighting, server diagnostics, and more...

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How I Over-Engineered the ASP.NET Health Monitoring Feature
Feb 19, 2013

ASP.NET Health Monitoring was one of the major features I worked on for the ASP.NET 2.0 release. Fast forward 8 years later, after releasing ASP.NET, IIS7. and building LeanSentry. This is the story of this feature, lessons learned...

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Why average latency is a terrible way to track website performance … and how to fix it.
Feb 09, 2013

How do you know if your website is running slowly? Using the common metric of Average Response Time turns out to be a terrible idea. These are the reasons why, and this is how we resolved this problem for LeanSentry ... Read More...

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LeanSentry: A better monitoring service for Windows server web apps
Feb 05, 2013

We've spent the last 5 years helping our clients build better websites on the Microsoft web platform. Eventually we got sick of logging into servers to debug IIS problems with appcmd, EventLog, windbg, and logparser. So we...

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Remove zombie websites from your IIS server
Nov 30, 2012

Zombie websites get created whenever the root application of a website is removed, orphaning the rest of the application content in your website. Because IIS requires the root of the website to be an application, this effectively...

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Automatically diagnose every IIS and ASP.NET error in your sites
Nov 28, 2012

What if someone automatically diagnosed every error in your IIS site? It would probably help you quickly fix all the lingering bugs in your apps … and make a lot of your users really happy. The hours you would save tracking down...

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Is your TableServiceContext missing IgnoreResourceNotFoundException when building with .NET Framework 3.5 System.Data.Services.Client.dll?
Oct 11, 2012

If you are developing code with Azure tables, and building against .NET 3.5 DLLs, you may encounter a compilation error like this: "The name 'IgnoreResourceNotFoundException' does not exist in the current context" At LeanSentry...

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Visual Studio build and publishing problems after upgrading to Azure 1.7 SDK
Jul 24, 2012

We recently went through upgrading www.leansentry.com to the Windows Azure SDK version 1.7, and definitely hit a fair share of problems with building and publishing afterwards. It was a somewhat painful process taking me deep...

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