.NET Trace Collect

This skill helps developers diagnose production performance issues by recommending the right diagnostic tools for their environment, guiding data collection, and suggesting analysis approaches. It does not analyze code for anti-patterns or perform the analysis itself.

When to Use

• A developer needs to investigate a production performance issue (high CPU, memory leak, slow requests, excessive GC, networking errors, etc.)
• Choosing the right diagnostic tool for a specific runtime, OS, or deployment topology
• Setting up and running diagnostic tool commands for data collection
• Understanding trade-offs between available tools (e.g. PerfView vs dotnet-trace)
• Collecting diagnostics from containerized or Kubernetes workloads

When Not to Use

• Reviewing source code for performance anti-patterns (use a code review skill instead)
• Benchmarking during development (e.g. BenchmarkDotNet setup)
• Analyzing collected trace or dump files (this skill recommends tools for analysis, but does not perform it)

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