Retrace now supports Azure WebJobs. Azure WebJobs provide an easy way to run scripts or programs as background processes in the context of an App Service web app, API app, or mobile app. Retrace will provide all of the same great insights to application performance as it does for web applications and windows services. Within Retrace, WebJobs will be monitored …
Azure Installation: Configure Azure Worker Roles
The Retrace .NET agent can automatically be installed with your Azure Cloud Service. Special logic exists so that if you enable our Retrace APM, it will automatically profile your main Worker Role process without having to create the ProfilerProcess.txt file specifying it. It also restarts your app after it enables the profiler. To install the agent, follow the directions in …
Azure Installation: Manually Configure App Services Site Extension
The easiest way to install Stackify APM+ for Azure App Services is via the Site Extension. This guide describes how to do it all manually and it is not recommended if you can use the Site Extension. 1. Create folder path for the site extension: D:\home\SiteExtensions\Stackify.AzureWebApps Do not put any files in the site extension folder. 2. Create folder path …
Azure Installation: Configure Azure App Services
Retrace’s powerful web application performance monitoring (APM+) is fully supported on Azure Web Apps. All APM related features are supported, such as identifying slow web pages, slow database queries, and viewing complete method level profile traces. Note: Some basic monitoring features like monitoring IIS metrics, WMI, and performance counters are not supported via Microsoft, and therefore not supported by Retrace. …
Release Notes: December 2015
We are excited to announce that the newest version of Stackify has just been released! Below are all the highlights of things we have updated in this latest version. APM+ Improvements We have added more functionality around our APM+ product as well as a few UI changes: Set up Goal Thresholds for your apps or individual requests. Ideal for getting a …
Retrace: Supported .NET Technologies and 3rd Party Libraries
The following frameworks are automatically supported by Retrace. The APM+ profiler traces will include details from these libraries with no additional configuration. Please note that most async functions are supported in the following libraries as well. For services that are running on your servers, you can also set up monitors for them. UI Frameworks WebForms MVC Web API WCF Nancy …
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 …
Monitors: Queues
If you take advantage of Azure Service Bus, you will likely want to keep an eye on your Queues, Topics, and Subscriptions. Here’s how to do it. Configuring Service Bus Queues From the Queue Monitors page, you will be able to add new Azure Queue and RabbitMQ Monitors. Azure Queues Configure an Azure Connection You will have an option to …