How to monitor asp.net application performance

There are a number of ways to monitor asp.net application performance, what is the easiest way to do it?

The easiest way I've found this is to monitor the request Execution time parameter of asp.net applications in Windows Performance Monitor (Performact monitor).

Microsoft's website on request Execution Time explanation:

This is counter shows the time, in milliseconds, which it takes to render the last requested page and then transmit it to the User. This counter would generally be greater than the "time a" trace shows to render the page. This counter is a to comprehensive measurement of Start-to-finish request time. If This counter shows a lower average when compared to a baseline, then both the scalability and the the AP Plication have been increased.

My understanding of request Execution time is that asp.net runtime receives a user request that IIS forwards->asp.net runtime How long it takes to send the requested response content to IIS.

To add the request Execution Time counter to the Windows Performance Monitor:

1. Open the Windows Performance Monitor and click the Plus button.

2. Find ASP.net applications

3. Find Request Execution Time