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How-To: Remove slow Azure instances

Wednesday, June 3, 2015
.NET Azure How-To IIS ASP.NET LeanSentry
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In case you missed it, LeanSentry How-To last week was about removing slow or unhealthy Azure instances from your cloud service. It’s a relatively new technique made possible by a new Azure API, that lets you remove a specific instance of your choosing. Direct link: LeanSentry How-To: Remove unhealthy or slow Azure instances Reasons to ... [Read more...]

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New Hang diagnostics for IIS & ASP.NET apps

Wednesday, May 6, 2015
ASP.NET IIS LeanSentry Troubleshooting
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LeanSentry's new Hang diagnostics are out! This was a major rewrite of the diagnostic algorithm, and a complete redesign of the interface. Some of the biggest changes are ...

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Re-inventing LeanSentry

Monday, April 13, 2015
ASP.NET IIS LeanSentry Personal Troubleshooting
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Hard to believe its been more than a year since my last post! I get a lot of “Hey Mike, what have you been up to?” email from this blog and the IIS troubleshooting newsletter, so I figured I should answer this question before getting back to business as usual. The short answer is, I’ve ... [Read more...]

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AppliedInnovations partnership brings LeanSentry to Windows-based ecommerce sites

Tuesday, November 19, 2013
LeanSentry
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Pretty excited this week, AppliedInnovations just announced a partnership to bring LeanSentry diagnostics to its Windows ecommerce customers. This is a smart move, because lets face it - the worst time for your ecommerce site to go down is when its making most sales. Unfortunately, thats exactly when all the hidden application bugs and performance [...]
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Infographic: Debugger vs. Profiler? Fixing slow ASP.NET page loads

Wednesday, October 16, 2013
ASP.NET CodeProject Debugging IIS performance
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We put together a fun infographic to compare using the debugger vs. a profiler for troubleshooting slow page loads in ASP.NET apps. This coincides with our recent release of LeanSentry's slow operation tracking, which provides an lighter (and more informative) alternative to either. Here it is: What do you use currently? Do you agree with [...]
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IIS hang troubleshooting guide

Tuesday, October 8, 2013
ASP.NET CodeProject Debugging Hangs IIS troubleshooting
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Want to learn how to troubleshoot IIS website hangs the way Microsoft developers do it? Check out the new IIS hang troubleshooting guide.
Let’s fix production troubleshooting

Tuesday, September 17, 2013
ASP.NET CodeProject IIS LeanSentry troubleshooting
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Production troubleshooting sucks. With LeanSentry, our vision has been to fix how IT and developers deal with production troubleshooting. Today, this vision is getting even closer to being reality with automatic diagnostics for IIS website hangs, ASP.NET memory leaks, and many others.
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Everything you ever wanted to know about ASP.NET request queues

Wednesday, July 24, 2013
ASP.NET CodeProject Debugging How-To IIS performance troubleshooting
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Did you know there are 5 places where ASP.NET requests can become queued on an IIS server? Learn all about these queues, and how to identify the actual queued requests!
The 4 server logs you NEED to know to fix any IIS / ASP.NET error

Tuesday, July 16, 2013
ASP.NET CodeProject How-To IIS troubleshooting
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Having trouble finding that IIS or ASP.NET error in production? Learn to use these 4 server logs, and you will always find the error you are looking for.
Fix the 3 silent performance killers for IIS / ASP.NET apps

Wednesday, July 10, 2013
ASP.NET CodeProject IIS performance troubleshooting
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If you could double your IIS/ASP.NET application performance by making just a few small tweaks, would you do it? Here are 3 high CPU problems for ASP.NET applications, that also happen to be easy to find and fix.