

Lighttable for tracing install#
When installing IIS, make sure that you also install the following: If IIS is not installed, see Installing IIS on Windows Server 2008 for installation instructions. You must install IIS 7 or above before you can perform the tasks in this article. Generating the failure condition and viewing the resulting trace.

Defining the URL for which to keep failed request traces, including failure definitions and areas to trace.Configuring failed-request tracing log-file semantics.Enabling the failed-request tracing module.The tasks that are illustrated in this article include: If you want to know why you're getting 404.2 error messages or request start hanging, use failed-request tracing. For information about doing this with Azure web apps, see Troubleshoot an app in Azure App Service using Visual Studio.įailed-request tracing is designed to buffer the trace events for a request and only flush them to disk if the request "fails," where you provide the definition of "failure". the following article discusses failed request tracing on IIS Server. Problems like poor performance on some requests, or authentication-related failures on other requests, or the server 500 error from ASP or ASP.NET can often be difficult to troubleshoot-unless you have captured the trace of the problem when it occurs. Request-based tracing is available both in stand-alone IIS Servers and on Azure web apps and provides a way to determine what exactly is happening with your requests and why, provided that you can reproduce the problem that you are experiencing.
