I mentioned Red Gate's ANTS Profiler 4 back when it was in beta:
Since then, Red Gate has released ANTS Profiler 4, and as previously mentioned, according to Bart Read this is what you should be excited about:
- It's fast, really really fast; 5 – 30 times faster than ANTS 3.
- It's got a fantastic UI that’s been validated by a huge amount of user testing.
- The timeline makes it really easy to filter down to the performance data you're looking for—just click and drag over the region of interest.
- The call tree shows you straight away the most expensive stack trace through your application, and if you’ve selected the right time region, that’s where your performance problem is going to be.
- The call graph has been described by a customer as “incredibly sexy”, and it makes it really easy to understand performance data in context for individual methods. It’s also great for blinding people—like your manager, or your customers – with science because you can print and export the diagrams.
It sounds like the new speed increase provides little overhead and the new timeline feature is the bomb. Per the news release:
“ANTS Profiler 4 marks the end of the static performance snapshot. The new timeline feature enables developers to analyze results between any two points in real time. Click and drag over a region of activity on the timeline and the tree view below automatically expands to show the worst-performing code within the region.”
You can download a free 14 day trial of ANTS Profiler 4 here.
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