AspNetInsight

- An instrumentation tool for ASP.NET written in C#

AspNetInsight is a light weight and plug & play tool for ASP.NET applications, to instrument and collect performance counter data of your dynamic pages/content running under ASP.NET; It intersect ASP.NET pipeline and collect necessary performance data related to each request such as total response time, page/handler processing time.. etc And also It gives you an insight about your site's performance in terms of response time and bandwidth!

features

• Collect performance counters for every request, served by ASP.NET
  • Total time spent, Handler(IHttpHandler) processing time
  • Response body size in bytes
• Produces live insight about your site
  • Minimum, Average, Maximum response time of your app
  • Minimum, Average, Maximum response body size of your app
• Embed live insight-widget into your website/application

configuration support, include

• Ability to Install AspNetInsight at machine(IIS) or individual site level
• Configure to collect performance counters in silent mode; configure to show live insight on demand at site level
• Preserve performance data in memory or SQLite data store
  • both machine(IIS) or individual site level configurations are allowed

installation support, include

• Plug and play installation with single dll file, without any prerequisites.
• Install AspNetInsight in GAC and configure it on individual site level
• AspNetInsight.Installer command line tool for your specific deployment needs such as Continues Delivery or manual or XCOPY
  • for both installation and un-installation

Library Dependencies – build for

.NET Framework 4.0 (CLR V4)

Supported ASP.NET framework

ASP.NET 4.0 and above (which supports .NET CLR V4)

Installation

1) Download latest release from GitHub

https://github.com/nleabcdef/AspNetInsight/releases

Please note, AspNetInsight.Installer.exe supports IIS7.0 and above

Use AspNetInsight.dll for XCOPY deployments.

2a) Using AspNetInsight.Installer

open Windows Command prompt as "Run as administrator" mode

• Installation - install it in Global Assembly Cache (GAC)

  > AspNetInsight.Installer.exe /i
  

• Configuration - configure your local IIS site by site-name

  > AspNetInsight.Installer.exe /cs "site-name.domain.com"
  

• Installation - install it in GAC and all IIS sites running under .NET CLR V4

  > AspNetInsight.Installer.exe /ic
  

• Un-installation - remove from GAC and IIS sites

  > AspNetInsight.Installer.exe /r
  

• for help,

  > AspNetInsight.Installer.exe /?
  

2b) XCOPY deployment or installation

• Prerequisite,

  • copy the AspNetInsight.dll into your app's bin folder or install it in Global Assembly Cache

• Install the AspNetInsight HTTP Module in IIS 6.0 and IIS 7.0 Classic Mode

   <configuration>
   	<system.web>
   	 <httpModules>
   		<add name="si_ResponseTracker" 
   		type="AspNetInsight4.ResponseTracker, AspNetInsight4, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=fd287cc2521f79a3"/>
   	 </httpModules>
   	</system.web>
   </configuration>

• Install the AspNetInsight HTTP Module in IIS 7.0 and above Integrated Mode

   <configuration>
    <system.webServer>
   	<modules>
   		<add name="si_ResponseTracker" 
   		type="AspNetInsight4.ResponseTracker, AspNetInsight4, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=fd287cc2521f79a3" preCondition="managedHandler"/>
   	</modules>
    </system.webServer>
   </configuration>

for more deployment and manual configuration options, refer: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms227673.aspx

3) Setup permissions

AspNetInsight module uses system's temporary directory (TEMP) to extract its dependency dlls based on current target platform (x86 or x64). Please provide necessary access(R,W,M and Delete) to the account/user on which your application's app pool is running!

- for example in Window 10,
	its %WINDIR%\TEMP
	or %WINDIR%\TMP

4) You are done !

• next step is configure html widget in your app.

Configuration

by default AspNetInsight configure your Asp.Net site to collect performance data in silent mode, but as a Site Administrator you will be allowed to disable response tracking at your site level and/or configure to show live insight html widget.

• add the below app setting into your web.config file
  • to enable or disable live insight html widget

    <!-- possible values - "yes" or "no" -->
    <add key="ShowAspNetInsightBanner" value="yes" />

  • to enable or disable respsone tracking

    <!-- possible values - "yes" or "no" -->
    <add key="AspNetInsightEnabled" value="no" />

License : Apache License 2.0

• read more here http://www.apache.org/licenses/