Performance: Tracked Functions

Tracked Functions essentially allow you to track a sub-transaction or block of code within a larger transaction. For example, they can be implemented for tracking various Elasticsearch queries to uniquely identify them. First you will need to add the StackifyLib dependency to your app: PM> Install-Package StackifyLib Once you have the StackifyLib installed you need to modify your code like …

.NET Agent Installation: Configure Windows Services

By default Retrace only profiles applications hosted within IIS. If you want Retrace to capture transactions from an application running as a Windows service, please follow these directions. Step 1. Install Retrace Windows Agent with the option for Windows Services with one of the below options: Option 1. New install in interactive mode: Upon installing check the box for Enabling the …

Performance: Non-Web Transactions

By default Retrace only tracks web transactions, however, it can be used to track non web transactions with some minor code changes. This article discusses tracking non web requests and could be applied to background work within a web app, a windows service, console app, or other types of service apps. You must first configure Retrace to know about and …

.NET Agent Installation: Configure Self Hosted Web API

Retrace automatically supports Web API transactions that are hosted within an IIS application. If you are “self hosting” Web API in a Windows Service, please use these directions. 1. Configure Retrace to know about and profile your application By default Retrace only profiles IIS applications. Please review this article on how to tell it to profile your application: .NET Agent Installation: Configure …

.NET Agent Installation: Configure Self Hosted WCF Applications

Retrace automatically supports WCF transactions that are hosted within an IIS application. If you are “self hosting” WCF in a Windows Service or similar background app, please use these directions. 1. Configure Retrace to know about and profile your application By default Retrace only profiles IIS applications. Please review this article on how to tell it to profile your application: …

Troubleshoot: Common Azure App Service Issues

Below are common Azure App Service issues. ‘StackifyHttpTracer’ Not Found If you encounter the error “Could not load file or assembly ‘StackifyHttpTracer’ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.”, download and install our NuGet package that will install the module into your project: Nuget: Stackify Http Module Using the “WEBSITE_LOCAL_CACHE_OPTION” Azure Setting We can’t support APM …

Retrace: Supported Java Application Containers and Frameworks

This list will reflect an up-to-date list of supported technologies. The following technologies are automatically supported by Retrace in Java APM+. Containers Application Containers Apache Tomcat (6.x, 7.x, 8.x, 9.x) GlassFish (4.x) JBoss AS 6.x, 7.x WildFly 8.x, 9.x, 10.x WildFly Swarm Jetty 8.x, 9.x Spring Boot Oracle WebLogic (12.x) IBM WebSphere (8.x, 9.x, Liberty) Apache TomEE (1.7.x, 7.0.x) Netty (3.x) Application Container …

.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 …