dotnet diagnostics lab

.NET diagnostics lab

Aspnet app with diagnostics samples using:

• dotnet-counters
• dotnet-stack
• hey
• dotnet-monitor
• prometheus
• grafana

Step by step - dotnet-monitor + prometheus + grafana

Running the app will start a container with dotnet-monitor. This container is setup to get diagnostic commands from the app container through a diagnostic port. Dotnet monitor exposes endpoints with usefull information:

• http://localhost:52323/info
• http://localhost:52323/processes
• http://localhost:52325/metrics

A full list can be seem here: https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet-monitor/blob/main/documentation/api/README.md.

The metrics endpoint captures metrics in the Prometheus exposition format.

To start grafana use the command bellow:

docker compose up grafana

The compose provisions grafana with prometheus datasource and the community provided dotnet-monitor dashboard. Once is started up go to http://localhost:3000/dashboards (user: admin, password: admin)

Load tests

Run the load test:

docker compose -f docker-compose.yml -f compose.tests.yml run --rm send-load-sync
docker compose -f docker-compose.yml -f compose.tests.yml run --rm send-load-async
docker compose -f docker-compose.yml -f compose.tests.yml run --rm send-load-enumeration
docker compose -f docker-compose.yml -f compose.tests.yml run --rm send-load-multiple-enumeration

Egress configuration

dotnet-monitor allows setting the egress to export artifacts like dumps. By default it's used the filesystem.

Configuration to use AWS S3

DOTNETMONITOR_Egress__S3Storage__monitorS3Blob__bucketName: bucketname
DOTNETMONITOR_Egress__S3Storage__monitorS3Blob__accessKeyId: accesskeyid
DOTNETMONITOR_Egress__S3Storage__monitorS3Blob__secretAccessKey: secretaccesskey
DOTNETMONITOR_Egress__S3Storage__monitorS3Blob__regionName: us-east-1

And the parameter egressProvider should be monitorS3Blob.

curl -X 'GET' 
  'http://localhost:52323/dump?egressProvider=monitorS3Blob' 
  -H 'accept: application/octet-stream'

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