Thursday, November 25, 2004

Monitoring, Diagnosing & Troubleshooting Web services messages

AmberPoint Express Site is a free product for monitoring, diagnosing & troubleshooting Web services messages. It operates as a Visual Studio Add-in and is distributed by Microsoft with the forthcoming "Whidbey" beta of Visual Studio.
It helps developers that are building and deploying .NET Web services.
Some of its basic features include:
1. Performance Monitoring: View Web service performance in real time with easy-to-digest charts for response time, throughput and SOAP fault counts
2. Analysis: Gain a quick understanding of performance bottlenecks and errors from drilling down into SOAP messages from performance graphs
3. Diagnosis: Inspect SOAP messages for content, faults and errors in an easy-to-read fashion to understand and debug anomalous Web service behavior
4. Testing: Resubmit messages from history or auto-generate new SOAP messages based on WSDL to fine-tune Web services
5. Integrated with Visual Studio .NET
6. It is Free!!!

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