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