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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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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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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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Sentinel demo at Philly Tech Meetup tonight!
Jul 27, 2011

We are coming to Philly Tech Meetup tonight to present Sentinel, which is one week away from the start of our first public beta! Its been a crazy few weeks getting everything ready for primetime, and we've accomplished a tremendous...

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Join the beta! Explore, analyze, and instantly diagnose your production ASP.NET applications.
Jul 14, 2011

The Sentinel beta registration is now open! If you are developing, hosting, or maintaining an ASP.NET web application on the Windows Server / IIS 7.0 platform, you’ll definitely want to check it out. leanserver.com/sentinel...

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IIS 7.0 Server-Side : IIS
Troubleshooting performance counter problems with perfmon and a debugger
May 24, 2009

Performance counters are a wonderful tool when it comes to quickly assessing system health and performance of Windows subsystems. In addition to learning much about the operation of Microsoft products, exposing performance counters...

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IIS 7.0 Server-Side : IIS
Workaround for using IIS 7 url authorization with ASP.NET roles
May 11, 2009

When using the IIS 7.0 Integrated pipeline, you gain access to a ton of cool scenarios where IIS and ASP.NET features work together to provide value for your application – regardless of the application content. Most of these...

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IIS 7.0 Server-Side : IIS
When to restart IIS when making changes to your application
Sep 12, 2008

Knowing when to restart IIS to pick up various types of changes to your application has traditionally been a challenge. IIS and ASP.NET are both stateful software systems, which heavily rely on cached state that is loaded once...

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