Designed for Production Usage Application performance monitoring products like Retrace APM+ are amazingly powerful for understanding the performance and behavior of your web applications. The downside is that APM solutions can slow down your applications due to their overhead. From day one we have designed Retrace APM+ to be very lightweight and safe for production servers. Three key reasons why …
Release Notes: APM+ v2.3
You may have heard about our newest version of our APM+ product. Read below to see the new improvements to stability and performance. APM+ v2.3 is Here! Since our beta version APM was introduced earlier this year, a lot of work has been put into improving the performance and stability APM+, along with adding support for more libraries and .NET …
Retrace: APM+ Overview
Retrace is a powerful new feature and serves as a core part of our Application Monitoring service. The feature implements byte code inspection of ASP.NET apps, giving you method-level telemetry on CLR code at run time. Use this tool to get instant insight on: Start time / end time and HTTP status codes HttpHandlers and HttpModules utilized in the IIS …
FAQ: How Do I Disable Retrace for .NET?
In the event you want to disable APM+ on a server but want to continue monitoring the server and the apps on it without profiling, just follow these simple steps. Disabling via Server Settings First go to Server Settings for the server that is running APM+ that you wish to disable. Disable APM+ Simply click the Disable APM+ button to …
Custom Profiling: Configure for .NET
By default, the Retrace .NET APM+ Profiler only instruments key, pre-defined events in the IIS pipeline and page life cycle. One of the key benefits of the profiler is that you may instrument tracing of how long any .NET method takes to execute and include that output in the call stack. In deciding what to profile, keep in mind the …
Performance: APM+ Requests
While in the Performance (APM+) tab within the App Dashboard there is a sub tab called By Requests. The By Requests tab allows you detailed insight into your applications request chain as well as information on the traces that are taken. By clicking on the requested actions link listed below the Satisfaction chart, you will be taken to an individual …
.NET Agent Installation: Enable APM+ During Install
When installing an agent for the first time, you will have the option to enable the .NET profiler used to capture data for APM+. Below will outline the options in the installation wizard that will allow you to enable APM+ for your server. Enable the Profiler By default, one of the checkboxes to enable the profiler to send APM data …
Performance: Dashboard Overview
There are three sections to the Dashboard tab inside the App Dashboard that allow you a quick insight to how your app is performing overall. By default the App Dashboard is filtered by the App/Environment that you selected from the Web Apps list. Health The Health section is always expanded by default upon entering the Dashboard tab of the App …