Microsoft .Net Application Performance Monitoring

What is .NET?

Microsoft .NET is a software and application development framework designed to offer its users many of the application-building capabilities they would get with Java but in a Windows-based systems environment. It’s free, open-source, and boasts many different application models. The platform is well-known for its vast library of coding languages, which can allow coders to pull from common functions used by other programmers instead of manually rewriting each line of code.

While this framework can make building applications easier and faster, it is often difficult to keep track of all your .NET applications in large, widely-distributed systems environments. However, monitoring .NET applications is important because these critical insights can be used to improve overall .NET application performance, such as helping more effectively allocate network resources and speed up troubleshooting.

What is .NET monitoring?

.NET monitoring is the process of using a Microsoft .NET monitor tool to oversee the status and performance of an application in your systems environment. .NET performance monitoring solutions often use a variety of templates to monitor the health and performance of .NET applications or systems within your Windows operating environment.

For example, a Current Connections template can help show the total number of applications, devices, or users connected to the Web service at the current moment. This includes both authenticated and non-authenticated users. You can also adjust the thresholds within the template based on what your server can handle for greater accuracy. This template is excellent for monitoring usage, troubleshooting, and making more informed decisions about distributing network resources. If the Current Connections template tells you your Web service is at or near maximum capacity, you know you must use load-balancing or clustering technologies to ease the burden.

What is ASP.NET?

ASP.NET is a framework used to build web apps, APIs, and other services in .NET. ASP.NET extends .NET capabilities by offering more components specific to creating web applications. Like .NET, it’s free, open-source, and comes equipped with a built-in coding library

Here are five key tools, functions, or extensions ASP.NET adds to .NET:

1. ASP.NET includes a base framework specifically designed for processing web requests.
2. Razor, a web-page templating syntax, is added, so users can create their own webpages using C#.
3. The coding template library includes rich, full sections on common web patterns.
4. ASP.NET incorporates an authentication system including a variety of tools designed to handle authentication measures in web-based applications.
5. Editor extensions are helpful for highlighting the little things web page editors must know.

How do you improve the performance of ASP.NET web applications?

ASP.NET health monitoring and general ASP.NET monitoring is critical for keeping your web-based applications running smoothly. Improving the performance of ASP.NET web applications begins with employing ASP.NET performance monitoring best practices. Here are some tips for improving and monitoring ASP.NET applications:

• Measure everything to get a baseline of your performance.
• Tackle the biggest performance drains first.
• Compress HTML files and reduce HTTP requests.
• Avoid using large images whenever possible.
• Embrace caching, even if you only cache a small portion of your pages.
• Use a CSS-based layout and load that content onto your site first.
• Input JavaScript last.
• Clear out unused resources in .NET applications.
• Make sure you are querying effectively.
• Use CSS and Script files to cut down on loading time.

Since ASP.NET and .NET can be thought of as related tools, a Microsoft .NET monitor can be helpful for broad spectrum web server monitoring. However, to really drill down on issues, you will need to monitor metrics more specific to ASP.NET performance.

What does .NET monitoring software do?

.NET monitoring software leverages a unified interface and monitoring templates to better streamline and automate the most challenging processes involved in .NET application performance monitoring. Tracking and improving the performance of .NET applications with monitoring software can help you answer these common questions:

• Are there shortcuts to let you know what factors you should be monitoring on your server?
• Is there a way to monitor custom-made applications?
• Is there an easier way to pinpoint the root cause of performance issues without checking each application one by one?

Without .NET monitoring software, users may be required to individually locate and keep track of the performance for applications built with Microsoft .NET. In a widespread and diverse systems environment, this manual monitoring is often a time-consuming process that leads to more questions than it helps solve.

How does .NET monitoring work in SAM?

Server & Application Monitor is designed to offer dynamic server monitor capabilities right out of the box. Here are five SAM feature highlights built to help make .NET monitoring fast and simple:

1. Application monitoring for all components—servers, virtual layer, and applications such as SQL Server, Exchange, and Active Directory.
2. Easily customizable alerts, reports, and dashboards for your enterprise-wide needs.
3. Baselines you can use to compare application performance and alert when apps start having issues.
4. Great value for your money—monitoring, reporting, alerting, and asset inventory in one product.
5. Easy server monitoring software for collaborating across server, web, database, and application teams.

With over 1,200 application monitoring templates contained within a single, intuitive web interface, users can easily monitor any application on any server anywhere at any time. SAM is built to manage applications running on on-premises, cloud, or hybrid systems environments from one unified tool. You can start troubleshooting and getting to the root of performance issues in as little as an hour.