High CPU Usage with .NET Counters

Investigating  high cpu usage in your applications can be challenging. Our friend Mike Rousos returns to show us how diagnose our applications using a few tools.

• [00:00] - Introduction
• [03:30] - Investigating CPU usage in a Web App
• [05:33] - Reviewing the built-in monitoring in Azure 
• [07:24] - Using the App Service Kudu tools
• [10:45] - Installing and using the dotnet-trace
• [15:14] - Retrieving the dump file through Kudu
• [16:45] - Analyzing the dump file
• [22:40] - Recap

Useful Links

• dotnet-trace performance analysis utility
• Kudu service overview
• What is Application Insights?
• Analyze CPU usage without debugging in the Performance Profiler