.NET APM on Windows

Runtimes Supported

.NET Full Framework

• v4.5.2 (built targetting 4.5.2, but must run under CLR 4.6.1)
• v4.6.1 and later

. NET Core

• v2.1 and later (2.1 and 3.1)

.NET

• v5.0, v6.0, v7.0

For older runtimes/frameworks, see the list of Legacy Profiler Supported Technologies

Application Types

• ASP.NET Web Applications
• ASP.NET Core Web Applications
• Windows Services
• Command line applications and services

Installing the Windows Agent

Make sure that the Windows Retrace Monitoring Agent is installed on your host and that the Retrace agent has been enabled for IIS.

Reference the Windows Install Guide article for detailed information about installing the agent.

Naming Your App

Create a file named Stackify.json and save it in the deployment folder of your application.

{
    "AppName": "MyApp",
    "Environment": "Production"
}

Sending All Exceptions to Retrace

By default the profiler only captures "unhandled" exceptions to avoid the overhead of a first-chance exception handler. However, if you want to capture and upload all first-chance exceptions you can enable this on a per application basis. To enable this, add the setting CaptureAllExceptions to the Stackify.json file as shown in the following example.

{
    "AppName": "MyApp",
    "Environment": "Production",
    "CaptureAllExceptions": true
}

Disabling Tracing

If you want to temporarily disable collection of APM data, you can add a property to the Stackify.json file to cause the profiler to be disabled. This does not impact collection of logs that are sent to Retrace.

{
    "AppName": "MyApp",
    "Environment": "Production",
    "DisableTracing": true
}