Production debugging: Is there a less intrusive way than WinDbg?

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Published on 2010-03-13T13:08:04Z Indexed on 2010/03/13 13:15 UTC
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Hi,

I was wondering if there is a less intrusive way to analyze a running, managed process in production environments.

Less intrusive meaning:

No delay of execution when attaching the debugger.
No delay of execution when getting basic stats like running threads.

In the Java world there is a such a tool part of the JDK. I was wondering if there're similar tools in the .NET world.

Any ideas?

Alex

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