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AppliedInnovations partnership brings LeanSentry to Windows-based ecommerce sites

Tuesday, November 19, 2013
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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.
Crack down on 404 errors in your web apps

Tuesday, July 2, 2013
ASP.NET CodeProject IIS LeanSentry troubleshooting
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404 Not Found is the most common error for production web applications. Turns out, they can often signal real production problems! Read on to learn about 4 types of Not Found errors you should find and fix ASAP.
LeanSentry: TechEd 2013 wrapup

Monday, June 17, 2013
ASP.NET CodeProject IIS LeanSentry TechEd troubleshooting
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Last week, we attended TechEd 2013 in New Orleans, and showed off LeanSentry to a crowd of Microsoft IT folks and developers. The reception was awesome! Here is the wrapup.
LeanSentry at TechEd: Day 1

Wednesday, June 5, 2013
IIS LeanSentry TechEd troubleshooting
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LeanSentry is a big hit at TechEd so far! Everyone is loving the demos, and everyone loves the LeanSentry Robot. People are definitely excited about how easy it is to troubleshoot hangs with LeanSentry.
We are at TechEd!

Monday, June 3, 2013
LeanSentry TechEd
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This is LeanSentry's first TechEd event, and first major conference really. Day 1 is starting now, and we are super excited to show off leansentry/talk to everyone. If you are there, definitely come by and check us out. We are in booth 2417/2419!
Search your entire IIS / ASP.NET web application stack

Thursday, May 30, 2013
ASP.NET CodeProject IIS LeanSentry troubleshooting
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At LeanSentry, we are all real ASP.NET engineers. So often, we do very engineer-like things. Like building features that we ourselves want to use to run our own web applications. This week, we announced one such feature - an instant search for all the data LeanSentry collects. I am sorry, this feature is just absolutely [...]
The holy grail: Automatically diagnose IIS and ASP.NET website hangs

Tuesday, May 21, 2013
CodeProject IIS LeanSentry troubleshooting
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We finally did it. LeanSentry now automatically detects and diagnoses IIS and ASP.NET hangs
Come support us at TechEd 2013 and get awesome stuff!

Wednesday, May 15, 2013
ASP.NET IIS LeanSentry TechEd
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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 and production troubleshooting to IIS/ASP.NET apps. But, we really do have some amazing new [...]
Things you still cant do with ASP.NET modules on IIS

Wednesday, April 24, 2013
ASP.NET CodeProject development IIS
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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.
Troubleshoot hanging requests on IIS in 3 steps

Monday, April 15, 2013
IIS troubleshooting
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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:
Manage IIS/ASP.NET applications easier with smart alerts

Tuesday, April 9, 2013
ASP.NET IIS LeanSentry troubleshooting
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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. Read on for the juicy details.
How I Over-Engineered the ASP.NET Health Monitoring Feature

Tuesday, February 19, 2013
ASP.NET CodeProject IIS Personal troubleshooting
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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 while building it, and a practical take on when to use/not to use Health Monitoring for monitoring your ASP.NET applications.
Why average latency is a terrible way to track website performance … and how to fix it.

Saturday, February 9, 2013
CodeProject IIS LeanSentry performance troubleshooting
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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 ...
LeanSentry: A better monitoring service for Windows server web apps

Tuesday, February 5, 2013
ASP.NET CodeProject IIS LeanSentry News performance troubleshooting
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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 built LeanSentry, a realtime diagnostic service for web applications on the Microsoft web platform ...