How to Disable Prefix: To disable the Profiler, use the Prefix UI and select “Disable profiler” How to Remove Prefix: To remove the StackifyHttpModule from IIS or IIS Express, please execute these commands below. Remove from IIS config: %windir%system32inetsrvappcmd.exe delete module “StackifyHttpModule_Net40” %windir%system32inetsrvappcmd.exe delete module “StackifyHttpModule_Net20” Remove from global IIS Express config: %programfiles(x86)%IIS Expressappcmd.exe delete module “StackifyHttpModule_Net40” %programfiles(x86)%IIS Expressappcmd.exe delete …
Prefix: Missing ASP.NET Module Names
Prefix can automatically track the names of your ASP.NET HTTP modules. This can be very useful for troubleshooting performance problems caused by a module. If you do not see module names as shown in the image below, you may need to make a config change to your computer. To collect the names of your modules, the Stackify profiler requires that Tracing …
.NET Agent Installation: Advanced Topics
In some circumstances, you may find you need to install the APM+ Profiler for .NET in a manner other than the default installation approach. This documentation covers those outside-the-norm installation methods that are available to you. You will also find some additional details here about how the .NET Profiler works. Technical and Performance Notes Performance The Retrace .NET Profiler has …
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. …
AWS Installation: Windows AWS EC2Config Service
If you are installing Retrace in AWS on EC2 Windows instances that are dynamic, it’s easy to leverage the silent installation method of adding Stackify to ensure that your new EC2 instances always have the latest and greatest Retrace agent. Just follow the steps below to get started. Launch an Instance In the most common example, you will want to …
Monitors: Key Transactions
Key Transaction Monitors allow you to quickly identify critical transactions (Web Requests and SQL Queries) that APM has discovered and add a layer of intelligent, proactive monitoring & alerting around them. They’ll all appear together in a sortable, filterable list complete with inline spark lines and access to deeper levels of data & customization. Default Key Transactions Whenever a new …
Prefix: Configure IIS Express
To work properly, Prefix requires an HTTP module. Visual Studio 2015 with IIS Express and IIS classic mode requires manually configuring it. IIS in Classic (IIS6) mode If you are getting a message that says you need to install the module and your app is running in IIS with the application pool set to classic mode, please review this document: Install …
Prefix: Viewing Application Logs
Prefix supports viewing logs from log4net or NLog in your profiling traces. To enable viewing your logs, you need to add the Stackify nuget packages for the logging appenders and ensure they are properly configured. When prompted for an ApiKey, leave it blank. You do not need a Stackify account. NLog (view docs) PM>Install-Package StackifyLib.NLog log4net (view docs) …