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• 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 ...