Chapter 32. Instrumentation

Many ASP.NET developers don't just build an application and walk away. They definitely think about how the application will behave after it is deployed. Instrumentation is the task that developers undertake to measure and monitor their ASP.NET applications. Depending on the situation, some instrumentation operations occur at design time, whereas others are ongoing processes that begin at runtime.

ASP.NET 2.0 gives you greater capability to apply instrumentation techniques to your applications. This release of the ASP.NET framework includes new performance counters, the capability to work with the Windows Event Tracing system, new possibilities for application tracing (covered in Chapter 23 of this book), and the most exciting part of this discussion—a new health monitoring system that allows you to log a number of different events over an application's lifetime.