Have you had to restart your app pool at 3AM just to keep the site running? Or spent hours scrolling through event logs, unsure if it's a memory leak or a locked thread?
Microsoft .NET applications are powerful, but complex. From IIS crashes to connection pool timeouts, diagnosing issues manually can be time-consuming and frustrating.
Applications Manager streamlines .NET application monitoring with correlated insights across the app, server, and cloud layers—so you can stop guessing and start resolving issues before users are affected.
Dive deep into your .NET server health and prevent sluggish app performance
Your .NET application server forms the backbone of your app performance. By actively monitoring it, you can preempt performance degradations and ensure consistent service delivery.
Memory Usage:
Track .NET memory consumption across heap and non-heap spaces. Identify memory leaks early and optimize garbage collection behavior to maintain healthy memory utilization.
Thread Pools:
Gain visibility into active and waiting threads. Detect thread pool exhaustion and configure thresholds that prevent application slowdowns due to blocked or limited threads.
Locks:
Visualize lock acquisition, wait times, and deadlock patterns in real time. This helps you resolve thread contention issues and long-running operations that impact user experience..
Exceptions:
Monitor unhandled exceptions, runtime errors, and application-level faults. Identify recurring error types and affected modules for quick remediation.
Connections:
Stay on top of connection activity and pool utilization. Detect connection spikes, drops, and exhaustion patterns before they escalate into downtime.
Network Traffic:
Understand traffic volume, latency, and throughput across the .NET network layer. Pinpoint anomalies and optimize communication between distributed services.
JIT Compilation:
Track JIT (Just-In-Time) compiler metrics to reduce code compilation delays and improve application startup performance.
Monitor the performance of .NET and .NET Core applications
To isolate issues at the application layer, it is essential to get a granular view of your .NET application's execution flow, including method calls, database queries, external service interactions, and more. Applications Manager provides end-to-end monitoring for .NET and .NET core applications in both development and production environments, including code-level insights, database performance, and infrastructure metrics.
Instrument .NET applications for popular web frameworks such as ASPX and MVC.
Monitor .NET performance alongside data from other components such as web service calls (ASMF, WCF, web API), database calls (Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra), Queues(Microsoft Message Queue, and others (Open web interface for .NET).
Map .NET applications and their supporting architecture in real-time with automated service maps.
Use distributed tracing for enhanced debugging if your .NET application uses microservices and distributed architectures.
Resolve user-impacting issues faster with context-driven diagnostics
Here’s how customers typically use Applications Manager to resolve performance issues:
Slow checkout? Trace latency to a slow payment gateway call
Spiking error rates? Identify exception patterns and pinpoint faulty releases
Outages? Correlate with IIS pool crashes or Azure VM restarts
With context-rich diagnostics, you move from symptoms to root cause faster.
Applications Manager's comprehensive .NET application monitoring capabilities help developers identify and address a wide range of issues, such as:
Memory leaks and inefficient memory allocations
Excessive CPU usage
Slow queries and other database related performance issues
Network latency, packet loss, and throughput
Thread contention
Deadlocks
Slow endpoints
Error rates and exceptions
User experience issues, such as slow page load times
Resource exhaustion issues
Scalability issues
Monitor IIS performance metrics before users notice issues
Applications Manager also supports IIS monitoring that allows you to manage web apps hosted on IIS. Applications Manager enhances visibility beyond what IIS Manager or PerfMon can offer.
Know when a site is down even before users report it
Track CPU, memory, and queue length for each app pool.
Identify restarts, request spikes, and configuration issues
Unify infrastructure and application monitoring for Azure-hosted .NET services
If your .NET applications are running in Azure, monitoring Azure itself is crucial for understanding of your application's health, performance, and reliability. Applications Manager's Azure monitoring capabilities enable you to:
Ensure that the Azure resources your .NET application depends on (eg: Virtual machines, App Services, databases, storage accounts, etc.) are available and functioning correctly.
Monitor key infrastructure metrics like CPU utilization, memory consumption, disk I/O, network latency, and request counts for your Azure resources.
Detect if slowdowns are caused by VM-level CPU throttling or app layer issues.
Correlate Azure resource usage with cost insights.
For example, a spike in latency matches with auto-scaling events. Now you can tune your scale rules instead of over-provisioning.
Monitor your entire Microsoft ecosystem from a single console
Applications Manager can also help keep tabs on your broader Microsoft ecosystem with support for monitoring Windows servers, SQL server, Exchange, Hyper-V, SharePoint, MSMQ, BizTalk, Microsoft 365, etc. Learn more:
Automate detection and resolution with adaptive, AI-powered alerts
Leverage AI-driven anomaly detection to configure dynamic thresholds for .NET application performance indicators. Set up smart alerts to automate alert escalations and trigger responsive actions on priority. Integrating your alerting system with your communication channels like Slack or e-mail helps you stay informed about every single event. This also allows you to respond quicker and resolve issues in time, reducing MTTD and MTTR.
Get started with Microsoft .NET monitoring in just a few minutes!
Download the free, 30-day trial of Applications Manager to monitor Microsoft .NET and explore the various features on your own now!
FAQs on .NET monitoring:
What is .NET monitoring?
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Microsoft .NET monitoring plays an important role in ensuring that applications can be developed and deployed without having to face performance lag or interruptions. It uses alerting, growth trend reporting, and data visualization techniques to help you ensure round-the-clock availability of your Microsoft .NET platform. Microsoft .NET performance monitoring is a pre-emptive approach to detect performance anomalies so that DevOps engineers can take corrective action before end-users get affected.
What does a .NET monitoring tool do?
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As an integral part of the DevOps process, a .NET monitoring tool is often employed to keep a close watch on the .NET framework and other associated components. It removes the need for DevOps teams to manually track each performance metric, especially when dealing with a large application infrastructure.
Applications Manager is one such .NET monitoring software that provides complete visibility of your .NET platform where you can also monitor the applications deployed in it. It has a dedicated performance dashboard where you can view important metrics such as system load, availability status, memory heap size, thread details, application sessions, exception details, lock details, JIT duration, runtime check rate, and more.
Why is it important to monitor Microsoft .NET?
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Real-time .NET application monitoring gives you deep and detailed insights into application performance, helping you identify and fix performance issues efficiently. It allows you to identify performance bottlenecks, slow-running queries, and memory leaks, enhancing proactive application management. By monitoring critical .NET performance metrics, you can identify issues like wait times and broken algorithms, dodging application crashes, server slowdowns, and failures before they affect end user experience. Monitoring .NET applications resource usage helps in ensuring smooth operations, enhancing functionality and improving response time. As a whole, real-time application monitoring is important to improve .NET app server performance and reliability.
"Standout Tool With Extensive Monitoring Capabilities"
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It allows us to track crucial metrics such as response times, resource utilization, error rates, and transaction performance. The real-time monitoring alerts promptly notify us of any issues or anomalies, enabling us to take immediate action.
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"I like Applications Manager because it helps us to detect issues present in our servers and SQL databases."
