.NET Core on Linux is still very fresh in 2017. First production deployments are just beginning to emerge. Consequently, development on this platform is only beginning to show up. There is a lack of knowledge and good practices related to virtually every aspect of the existence of this environment. One of them is monitoring and diagnostic aspect. How can we monitor and analyze the health of our application?

The easiest way of getting tracing data is by using official perfcollect bash script and then using Perfview on Windows to analyze this recorded data. This approach has some drawbacks. The main one is are fairly limited analysis results available in PerfView. The second, less burdensome, is the need for Windows to… analyze Linux data. Recently Sasha Goldstein has created a lot of valuable material on this subject and I invite you to review the list posted at the end of this post.

I would like to present another diagnostic option here. This is using the free Eclipse Trace Compass tool. Continue reading