Instrumentation in .NET

Many of us know as to how to debug a application in DEV, TST and STG environments. But how to debug a application in PROD or how to determine the state of the application or how to run the diagnostics for an application in PROD.

Here comes Instrumentation to the rescue. Instrumentation techniques like event logging, tracing can help to measure the performance, determine the state of the application.

If you wish to read more about these techniques, check the MSDN article at

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/04/InstrumentationinNET/default.aspx

useful http debugging tools

I was implementing 301 redirect at the application level and was in need of a HTTP debuging tool to look at the header info, request, response info. I did some “googling”
and tried a few tools of all i like these two:

(i) Live Http Headers for Firefox

(ii)Microsoft’s Fiddler which supports both HTTP and HTTPS.

Links:

http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/

http://www.fiddlertool.com/fiddler/