Memory leaks can be causing poor website performance, and blowing out your cloud hosting costs.
You can now easily reduce memory usage and fix memory leaks, check out our Diagnose w3wp.exe memory usage guide for the step by step!
Debugging async hangs in ASP.NET core, MVC and WebAPI apps can be extra hard!
To help, we added async task support to LeanSentry hang diagnostics. Check out the Diagnose async hangs in ASP.NET Core, MVC and WebAPI for details!
You could be throwing away 50-80% of your cloud instance CPU power, due to common .NET CPU overheads.
Learn more about these and how to remove them to save on your cloud costs in our W3wp high CPU guide.
To commemorate over 10 years of LeanSentry Hang diagnostics, we wrote an updated guide to resolving IIS and ASP.NET hangs.
Get the step-by-step guide at Diagnose IIS website hangs.
Tired of monitoring dozens of metrics that produce no actionable value, and then still struggling with website outages?
After 10 years of solving IIS performance problems at LeanSentry, we’ve developed a practical model for tuning IIS website performance. Get the full system in our new IIS monitoring guide.
This week’s How-To: recover from a failed CPU profiler that has frozen your process in production. Plus a trick to temporarily suspend/resume any process you don’t want to be running.
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…]
We just announced our new expert How-To series, where we’ll be bringing you some of the best practices and techniques we’ve been using with customers. The post this week is about the Response.Flush API, a silent but deadly performance killer. Many of our ASP.NET customers experience performance degradation and hangs because of it, so its … [Read more…]
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 …
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…]