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

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

The beta will for the first time make available our instant diagnosis features, which help identify the root cause of top applications problems - like server resource overload, application errors, and slowdowns/hangs.

This is HUGE for most people running production applications, that today have to spend days or even weeks every month chasing down these hard-to-repro problems.

With this beta, we are for the first time making Sentinel available as a service, making it possible to start monitoring and diagnosing performance and health problems in your web application in minutes.

The beta begins on August 3rd. We cannot support a large number of users yet, so space in the beta is limited. If you are interested, want to learn more, or want to be notified when we release, get in touch with us at leanserver.com/sentinel.

We are super excited to finally make this a reality. We think Sentinel is going to revolutionize how IT and application developers work - spending less time tracking down and investigating hard-to-reproduce production problems, and spending more of it building the features and insuring an excellent application experience for their users.

Best,

Mike Volodarsky

CTO
LeanServer

Published 14 July 11 03:27 by Mike Volodarsky

Filed under: Troubleshooting, LeanServer, Sentinel

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# cb said on July 15, 2011 4:52 PM:

Congrats, we are happy customers! Please keep on shipping great stuff. -Myspace

# joseph m. said on July 20, 2011 2:37 PM:

This is exciting. Does your tool have a big impact on each server that is monitored?

# Mike Volodarsky said on July 20, 2011 2:46 PM:

Actually, very little to no impact!

In fact, it doesn't even require anything to be installed on each server. Our monitoring service uses standard Windows services to collect all needed data remotely, and then builds additional information from that.

This collection has virtually no overhead on each server ... so you can continually track production applications without being afraid of affecting them :)

# brk said on July 21, 2011 7:00 AM:

I like the automatic troubleshooting feature, hopefully this can really help spend less time finding various problems with the server.

# Mike Volodarsky said on July 22, 2011 11:30 AM:

Definitely. Just eliminating the time wasted hunting down logs, errors, and other data is huge. The automatic diagnosis features are the icing on the cake, letting us instantly apply our tried and tested troubleshooting techniques to people's applications.

We are starting out with just a handful of diagnosis cases, and looking to expand them dramatically to cover most common application problems by end of August!

Best,

Mike

# AJ said on July 25, 2011 11:11 PM:

I really, really hope I can get in on this beta Mike, this looks amazing and will be a perfect compliment to my other monitoring tool (zabbix)...added you on twitter btw! (wildburrito) :)

# Mike Volodarsky said on July 26, 2011 8:33 PM:

AJ, did you register on leanserver.com/sentinel? We will be sending out some information on the beta shortly.

Thanks,

Mike

# AJ said on July 28, 2011 10:43 AM:

Mike, yes I did register, but haven't gotten anything just yet..

# Mike Volodarsky said on July 31, 2011 12:13 PM:

We just sent out our kickoff mail to all the beta participants, and more coming this week - stay tuned!

Best,

Mike

# said on August 11, 2011 10:51 PM:

We are starting out with just a handful of diagnosis cases, and looking to expand them dramatically to cover most common application problems by end of August!

# kd said on August 19, 2011 3:57 AM:

Great stuff guys, Keep up the good work.

# said on August 21, 2011 1:29 PM:

thanks for sharing

# said on September 2, 2011 3:53 PM:

thank you for share

# said on September 2, 2011 3:54 PM:

thank you for share

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About Mike Volodarsky

For the past 5 years, I was the core Program Manager for Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 and IIS 7.0 products. I drove the design and development of the IIS 7.0 web server core, the IIS FastCGI support, the AppCmd command line tool, the ASP.NET Integrated pipeline, and other special projects around server security, performance, and scalability. Now, I am working on my own on cutting edge web server tech on top of the Microsoft IIS platform, and continue blogging about it here.