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.
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.
High CPU usage in the IIS worker process can cause poor IIS website performance … even if the processor is not completely overloaded.
This can lead to high CPU hangs, 503 queue full outages, and higher-than-needed cloud costs.
Learn why it happens and how to fix it in our High CPU usage in w3wp.exe guide.
Tune the IIS thread pool to improve website RPS, and resolve 503 Queue Full errors.
Check out the full guide at https://www.leansentry.com/guide/iis-aspnet-hangs/iis-thread-pool.
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 … [Read more…]
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!
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.
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 how we resolved this problem for LeanSentry …