Product Information
What is Glimpse?
Providing real-time diagnostics and insights to hundreds of thousands of developers daily. How does Glimpse help?
Once installed, Glimpse examines web requests as they occur, offering insights and tools to reduce debugging time and empower every developer to enhance their web applications.
**Visual Profiling** – Glimpse analyzes key server-side activities and displays the timing of each in an easy-to-understand Gantt chart.
**Transparent Data Access** – Out-of-process database calls are costly. Glimpse lists every one of them, giving you control over excessive or poorly performing queries.
**View Rendering & Resolution** – Glimpse provides full visibility into the ASP.NET MVC view resolution process, including file access paths.
**Route Debugging** – ASP.NET routing is powerful but sometimes frustrating. Glimpse cracks open the black box and reveals how routes are matched.
**Server Configuration** – Learn all essential details about the server handling the request, including timezone, patch versions, process ID, and relevant web config entries.
**For All Requests** – Glimpse delivers insights not just for the original request but also for AJAX calls, past historical requests, and even those made by other users.
**ASP.NET WebForms Too** – Glimpse for ASP.NET WebForms features the best view state decoder, directly embedded into the server control tree.
**Enhanced Tracing** – Glimpse automatically displays trace statements, eliminating the hassle of digging through log files. Popular logging frameworks can also be integrated with minimal configuration!
How to use Glimpse?
Glimpse is a tool that provides real-time diagnostics and insights for developers by examining network requests, offering in-depth analysis and debugging tools to reduce debugging time and improve web applications.
Core Functions of Glimpse
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Usage Scenarios of Glimpse
- Visually analyze server-side activities, displaying time spent per activity in Gantt charts
- Identify and list out-of-process database calls to optimize inefficient or excessive queries
- Provide full visibility into ASP.NET MVC view resolution, including file access paths
- Debug ASP.NET route matching mechanisms to reveal how routes are matched
- View configuration details of request-origin servers, such as time zone, patch version, process ID, and relevant web config entries
- Automatically display trace statements to simplify log file analysis
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