I want to view the heap and the objects inside them. Is there a .net monitoring and profiling tool which I could use to view heaps and memory of a asp.net and C# application?
Under the Local node in the Applications window, right-click the application node and choose Open to open the application tab. Click the Profiler tab in the application tab. Click Memory or CPU in the Profiler tab. When you choose a profiling task, VisualVM displays the profiling data in the Profiler tab.
JConsole uses only JMX, but VisualVM uses other monitoring technologies like Jvmstat, Attach API and SA in addition to JMX. It can merge data from all those monitoring technologies in one place and the user does not need to think which technology he should use in particular situation.
There are two ways to connect a remote JVM application to VisualVM: Either using jstatd or Java Management Extensions (JMX). The jstatd program is an RMI server that bundled with the JDK and monitors JVM and provides an interface to allow remote monitoring tools to attach to JVM running on the localhost.
VisualVM is an open source tool to monitor JVM instances of each running JVM application. Its built-in features can be further enhanced by installing plugins. The users of Oracle JDK or OpenJDK 9 can download this open source tool from https://visualvm.github.io/index.html.
I would suggest taking a look at ANTS Memory Profiler and ANTS Performance Profiler from Red Gate:
ANTS Memory Profiler:
http://www.red-gate.com/products/dotnet-development/ants-memory-profiler/
ANTS Performance Profiler:
http://www.red-gate.com/products/dotnet-development/ants-performance-profiler/
For such affordable tools, they do a fantastic job of identifying bottlenecks and memory leaks.
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