Exception profiling?

16 Oct 2006 7:27 PM

Anna Troiken

I need to be able to see what exceptions are being raised by an ASP.NET
application. I can see from perfmon that our ASP.NET app is throwing
hundreds, if not thousands, of exceptions per second but very little is
being logged. So what I'd like to do is run a profiler and see exactly what
exceptions are being raised and where they are being raised.

I've seen several profilers, but all seem to be just heap and/or memory
profilers. I haven't found one that will show me exceptions. Does such a
tool exist? I know that there is a Profiler API, but I'd rather not dive
into writing my own for this one project.

Thanks in advance!

16 Oct 2006 11:56 PM

David Levine

Do you have the source code and can you attach a debugger to it? If so, then
you can attach to it and configure it to break when an exception is thrown.
That would be the easiest way.

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"Anna Troiken" <anna.troiken@nospamiam.com> wrote in message
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>I need to be able to see what exceptions are being raised by an ASP.NET
>application. I can see from perfmon that our ASP.NET app is throwing
>hundreds, if not thousands, of exceptions per second but very little is
>being logged. So what I'd like to do is run a profiler and see exactly what
>exceptions are being raised and where they are being raised.
>
> I've seen several profilers, but all seem to be just heap and/or memory
> profilers. I haven't found one that will show me exceptions. Does such a
> tool exist? I know that there is a Profiler API, but I'd rather not dive
> into writing my own for this one project.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>