Getting visibility into .NET code whether it runs on a developer machine, on a windows server on-premise or as a serverless function in the cloud is the day2day job of Georg Schausberger (@BombadilThomas) and Bernhard Ruebl, part of the Dynatrace .NET Agent Team.

In this podcast we hear firsthand about the challenges in bringing observability, monitoring and distributed tracing to the .NET ecosystem. They give us insights about their continued effort to reduce startup and runtime overhead, the innovation that comes out of Microsoft as they are moving towards open standards and the noble automated approach to always validated things don’t break monitored code with the constant update of libraries and frameworks.

We also got both to talk about their developer experience when working with commercial tools such as Dynatrace and its PurePath technology as well as open source tools when analyzing and debugging their own code or helping users figure out what’s wrong with their code.

In the talk both mentioned other tools which we wanted to provide the links for:
Benchmark.NET
https://benchmarkdotnet.org/articles/overview.html

Ben.Demystifier.
https://www.nuget.org/packages/Ben.Demystifier/

IIS Module tracing
https://forums.ivanti.com/s/article/How-To-Enable-IIS-Failed-Request-Tracing

Georg Schausberger
https://twitter.com/BombadilThomas
https://www.linkedin.com/in/georg-schausberger-6898b6141/

Bernhard Rübl
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernhard-r%C3%BCbl-084881104/