Debug Azure services in Visual Studio

Applies to: Visual Studio Visual Studio for Mac Visual Studio Code

You can use Visual Studio to debug Azure services in different scenarios:

To debug a production app hosted in:

• Azure App Service

  • Using Visual Studio Enterprise, see Debug live ASP.NET apps using the Snapshot Debugger.

  • Using attach to process in Visual Studio, see Remote debug ASP.NET Core on Azure.

• Azure App Service or Service Fabric, using Application Insights, see Debug snapshots on exceptions in .NET apps.

• Azure virtual machine or Azure virtual machine scale set, see Debug live ASP.NET Azure virtual machines and Azure virtual machine scale sets using the Snapshot Debugger.

• Azure Kubernetes Service, see Debug live ASP.NET Azure Kubernetes Services using the Snapshot Debugger.

To remote debug:

• ASP.NET on IIS (Azure App Service or an Azure VM), see Remote Debugging ASP.NET on Azure.

• ASP.NET on Azure Service Fabric, see Debug a remote Service Fabric application

See also

• Debugging in Visual Studio