Installing and using dotnet-counters

In this section, we will install and use dotnet-counters. These counters are very useful data-gathering tools that help us to monitor the health of our programs.

Open Developer Command Prompt for Visual Studio 2022. Then, type in the following command and press Enter:

dotnet tool install --global dotnet-counters --version 3.1.141901

This will download and install dotnet-tools. A successful installation will be presented, as shown in Figure 5.20:

Figure 5.20 – The successful installation of dotnet-tools version 3.1.141901 using Developer Command Prompt

The purpose of using dotnet-counters is to perform health monitoring and a first-level performance investigation of your applications. If when using this program, potential performance problems are identified, then you can perform a more serious performance investigation using tools such as PerfView or dotnet-trace:

• To periodically collect selected counter...