You're reading from Tools and Skills for .NET 8 Get the career you want with good practices and patterns to design, debug, and test your solutions 

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837635207

Length 778 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Tools

.NET

Concepts

Cloud Native

Author (1):

Mark J. Price

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Introducing Tools and Skills for .NET

2. Making the Most of the Tools in Your Code Editor FREE CHAPTER

3. Source Code Management Using Git

4. Debugging and Memory Troubleshooting

5. Logging, Tracing, and Metrics for Observability

6. Documenting Your Code, APIs, and Services

7. Observing and Modifying Code Execution Dynamically

8. Protecting Data and Apps Using Cryptography

9. Building an LLM-Based Chat Service

10. Dependency Injection, Containers, and Service Lifetime

11. Unit Testing and Mocking

12. Integration and Security Testing

13. Benchmarking Performance, Load, and Stress Testing

14. Functional and End-to-End Testing of Websites and Services

15. Containerization Using Docker

16. Cloud-Native Development Using .NET Aspire

17. Design Patterns and Principles

18. Software and Solution Architecture Foundations

19. Your Career, Teamwork, and Interviews

20. Epilogue

21. Index

Monitoring with metrics in .NET

Metrics are fundamental concepts in monitoring applications and services in .NET. Metrics are closely related to alerts, as metrics provide the data that alerts use to determine when something requires attention.

Alerts are notifications that something abnormal or noteworthy has happened within the system. By setting up alerts, you can catch issues before they become critical, thereby reducing downtime and improving system reliability.

Concepts for metrics and alerts

First, let’s cover some basic concepts for monitoring with metrics and alerts, including what they are and what benefits they bring to .NET solutions.

Metrics

Metrics are quantitative measurements used to track and analyze the performance, health, and behavior of your application or system. Common .NET metrics include:

Performance: CPU usage, memory consumption, request processing times, and so on.
Application: Number of requests per second, error...