What is Prefix? Prefix is a lightweight .NET CLR profiler. It does not track every single method called by your app like standard profilers do (ANTS, dotTrace, Visual Studio, etc). Prefix only tracks certain methods in your code. Because of this Prefix does not slow your app down and you can use it all the time. The following frameworks are automatically supported …
Prefix Premium: Using with Non IIS .NET Applications
Starting with Prefix v2.0, Prefix can be used with self-hosted Web API, WCF, or non web apps like Windows services, Azure worker roles, etc. You must tell Prefix about these applications and configure which operations in your code to profile. Please view our Retrace docs on how to configure the Stackify profiler for non-web apps: Using Retrace With Non Web …
Troubleshoot: APM+ for .NET
This guide is intended to help users who are experiencing problems trying to configure their application to send APM data to Retrace. If you haven’t already, check out our documentation on installing Retrace for your appropriate application framework. This guide will provide you with a checklist of items that will help troubleshoot what is going on. If you are still not …
.NET Agent Installation: Enable Classic IIS App Pools
When Stackify Retrace or Prefix is installed, StackifyHttpModule is registered in IIS. If you are using “classic” application pools, they will not automatically use Stackify’s module. To fix this you can either add the module to your application’s web.config and redeploy your app, or modify the master web.config on your server or PC to reference the module. Note: Some APM features …
Errors and Logs: .NET Supported Frameworks
Listed below are supported .NET frameworks to configure Error and Log management in Retrace. .NET Log4Net NLog Elmah Serilog Log directly to the .NET Stackify API (no framework) Configuring .NET Core Logs Collecting Server Logs Windows Event Logs Log Collector Settings
.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 …
Prefix: Download & Release Notes
<img width=”1″ height=”1″ style=”border:0″ src=”HTTPS://bs.serving-sys.com/Serving/ActivityServer.bs?cn=as&ActivityID=854700&ns=1″/> Prefix for Windows .NET Download Java Download Release History & Notes v3.0.18 (2017-05-22) New and optimized profiler Ability to toggle suggestions on/off Misc performance improvements Many other bug fixes v2.5.19 (2016-12-06) Fix bug around Windows Services support v2.5.18 (2016-11-16) Waiting for Activity and Connecting no longer blocks UI Single Sign On from Retrace to Prefix …
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 …