Measure app performance in Visual Studio

Profiling and diagnostics tools help you diagnose memory and CPU usage and other application-level issues. With these tools, you can accumulate performance data while you run your application.

Get started

Tutorial

• Get started analyzing CPU usage
• Get started measuring memory usage
• Try AI-assisted profiling

How-To Guide

• Case study - Beginner's guide to optimizing code
• Case study - Isolate a performance issue

Fundamentals

Overview

• First look at profiling tools
• Which tool should I use?
• What is a profiler?
• Ways to run profiling tools

Concept

• Understanding performance collection methods

Performance tools

How-To Guide

• CPU Usage
• Memory Usage
• .NET Object Allocation Tracking
• Instrumentation
• .NET Counters
• Benchmark.NET
• File I/O
• Database
• Events Viewer
• .NET Async

Guides

How-To Guide

• Optimize profiler settings
• Measure performance from the command line
• Use multiple profiler tools simultaneously