What is Prefix? Prefix is a lightweight Java profiler. It does not track every single method called by your app like standard profilers do. 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 by Prefix with no code or config …
.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: …
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 …
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 …
Prefix: Hostname Bindings for Localhost or Remote Access
Prefix can be set to allow remote access to it’s UI. By default Prefix only responds to traffic for the host name’s localhost and 127.0.0.1 on port 2012. If you cannot use “localhost” on your local machine for some reason, or want to access Prefix from another server, you can set Prefix to also bind to additional host names. Find …
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 …
Servers: Remove A Server Programmatically
This article is intended to help you leverage Stackify’s API by making a REST service call to programmatically remove Retrace instances from the Servers page of Retrace. To see how to remove servers from the Retrace portal, see the “How Do I Remove a Server” article. Below are the REST calls to the API for both Windows and Linux machines …
Prefix: Comparison to Glimpse for ASP.NET
Below is a list of some of our opinions on the differences between Prefix and Glimpse. They both have some pros and cons and help solve similar problems. We think Glimpse is awesome and you can actually use both tools together if you like. Prefix Glimpse Price FREE FREE Project origin Based on Stackify’s APM technology Open source community project …