Tag: Hangs

Fix IIS & ASP.NET hangs faster with Hang diagnostics

Automatic hang diagnostics for IIS & ASP.NET apps has been one of LeanSentry’s most popular features.

Now, Hang diagnostics are getting even better, with more expert insight into hangs, better root cause detection, and more code-level data for your developers.

Automatically diagnose ASP.NET hangs

LeanSentry’s Hang diagnostics feature helps you resolve your website’s slowdowns, better than you can with generic monitoring tools. It does this by detecting and by automatically diagnosing dozens of common IIS, ASP.NET, and Classic ASP performance problems whenever your site experiences them.

No intrusive profilers, DebugDiag, or other tools needed. Like most of LeanSentry, hang diagnostics have virtually zero overhead during normal operation, and only a small overhead (5-10 seconds of analysis) when a problem is confirmed. This means you can add LeanSentry’s deep diagnostic insight to your existing monitoring without any conflicts or performance drops.

What’s new?

A lot! We’ve improved the diagnostic algorithms to detect more problems. Then there is the brand new diagnostic report interface that gives you better guidance, and more information on what caused the hangs.

See the actual IIS & ASP.NET operation

See the real request flow during ASP.NET hangs
See the actual request flow, and the key IIS & ASP.NET performance issues during the hang.

Expert guidance

Full ASP.NET hang analysis
LeanSentry analyzes the specific causes of the hang in your app, and gives you best practice guidance on how to address it.

Identify the function, slow SQL, REST call causing blocking

Diagnose ASP.NET hangs down to code, SQL query, and more
LeanSentry automatically determines the application code causing request blocking or thread pool exhaustion, and shows your the line of code, SQL query, REST url, or file being accessed.

Try it out

If you are still troubleshooting hangs the hard way, or trying to use the generic transaction monitoring tools, you are missing out. To learn more, check out LeanSentry’s hang diagnostics, and do a trial to see it for yourself.

Fix IIS hangs – troubleshooting guide!

IIS hangs troubleshooting guide

We’ve been working hard on LeanSentry’s automatic diagnostics, to make sure it can detect and diagnose most production issues for you.

If you are not using LeanSentry yet, that means you are still doing troubleshooting by hand. To help, Mike recently created the LeanSentry Production troubleshooting course, an email course based with his own debugging techniques.

Today, we published an online guide for the course’s most popular troubleshooting topic, how to troubleshoot IIS website hangs.

Fix IIS hangs

The guide gives practical tips on how to isolate, and diagnose the hang so you can fix it. All you’ll need is the standard Microsoft tools and some time.

Here is a sneak peak:

Fix IIS hangs - table of contents

Want more IIS & ASP.NET troubleshooting guides?

If we get good feedback on the guide, we plan to turn the rest of the class into online guides for everyone to use.

It helps us raise our profile, and its an awesome way for us to contribute to the IIS & ASP.NET community.

So, go check out the “Fix IIS hangs” guide, share it, and leave your feedback on Mike’s blog!

Best,

The LeanSentry team