Is there a dtrace equivalent for .Net

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Is there a .Net equivalent or analogue for dtrace?

It'd help if you explained shortly what dtrace is, because some people may be familiar with something like that on .NET while not knowing dtrace at all. — Joey, Feb 14 '16 at 09:27

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 24 '10 at 01:50

Not directly in the sense of a system where you can 'script' the way you can with DTrace.

However there is Event Tracing (Good intro), which combined with Performance monitoring and Powershell (Powershell and ETW ) could provide you with the information you need. It is not specific to .NET but encompasses a given .NET process (use perfmon for the .NET specific items).

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 14 '16 at 09:21

Now that ASP.NET can be run on Linux compatible containers, and those linux compatible containers can be run on SmartOS instead, in effect there may be a possibility of running Dtrace to assist with debugging .NET Code or CoreCLR code at least. In fact this has now been done: https://www.joyent.com/blog/running-and-debugging-coreclr-on-triton

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Mar 12 '19 at 15:28

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Yes there are Windbg and also perfmon

edited Mar 12 '19 at 15:28

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answered Feb 24 '10 at 01:02

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dTrace is scriptable. Is this also the case for Windbg and perfmon? – Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen May 08 '10 at 14:03

Is there a dtrace equivalent for .Net

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