ASP.NET性能计数器

Question

I'm using the asp.net web api 2.0 and Elastic/Logstash/Kibana stack. Now i want to measue how long my methods need to finish. Things i tried:

• Action Filter Attribute / AOP I put an instance of Stopwatch into request.properties and measured it this way. It's positive that I can connect the method name and value and it's easy to get the results into logstash. But if it's possible I'm looking for a way that is more generic and maybe already implementet in asp.net.

• ASP.NET Performance Counter I found the Request Execution Time metrics and can check the value on perfmon. I can't connect the values to the requests, because i only get the value that belongs to the last requests, not the current (of cause, the request is still in progess). I also checked libs like Metrics.NET which also uses those counters and Logary. With Metrics.NET I was able to send my data to logstash, but I wasn't able to filter them so it was a mass of data. With logary I configured the logstash endpoint but data didn't reach logstash.

Has anyone more experience with those and can tell me which one you prefere or fits best for my needs?

Answer 1

I'd recommend against using anything in code as this may add overhead to your performance.

.NET performance counter logs is a better solution but I'm not sure if LogStash can easily ingest these.

I know a lot of people prefer to aggregate the raw IIS log files into LogStash. There's some guides available here:

• http://jacob.ludriks.com/2014/07/10/IIS-logging-to-the-ELK-stack/
• http://improveandrepeat.com/2014/11/using-logstash-to-analyse-iis-log-files-with-kibana/
• https://adammills.wordpress.com/2014/02/21/logstash-and-iis/