🔍 Dotnet Monitor for VS Code

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Monitor and analyze your .NET application performance directly from Visual Studio Code. This extension provides an integrated visual interface for dotnet-monitor, displaying real-time metrics from your .NET processes.

✨ Features

• 📊 Real-time dashboard - Visualize metrics from your .NET applications while they run
• 🧠 Memory metrics - Monitor Working Set and GC Heap Size with interactive charts
• 🔄 Auto-reconnect - Automatically reconnects if the connection to dotnet-monitor is lost
• ⚙️ Highly configurable - Customize ports, arguments and extension behavior
• 🎨 Modern interface - Visual dashboard with interactive charts

📋 Requirements

Before using this extension, you need to have installed:

1. .NET SDK (version 6.0 or higher)
2. dotnet-monitor - Install it globally with:

   dotnet tool install -g dotnet-monitor
   

🚀 Usage

1. Open the Command Palette (Cmd+Shift+P on macOS / Ctrl+Shift+P on Windows/Linux)
2. Type Mostrar Dashboard Dotnet Monitor and select the command
3. The dashboard will open showing all running .NET processes
4. Select a process to start monitoring its real-time metrics

📊 Available Metrics

Currently, the extension monitors the following memory metrics:

• Working Set (MB) - Total physical memory used by the process
• GC Heap Size (MB) - Size of the heap managed by the Garbage Collector

More metrics in development: CPU, threads, exceptions, etc.

🛠️ Development

If you want to contribute or modify the extension:

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/jimovellan/dotnet-monitor-vscode.git
cd dotnet-monitor-vscode

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Compile
npm run compile

# Run in watch mode (development)
npm run watch

# Run tests
npm test

Press F5 in VS Code to start the extension in debug mode.

🐛 Known Issues

• The extension requires dotnet-monitor to be installed globally
• On some systems, manual port configuration may be necessary if there are conflicts

📝 Release Notes

0.0.1

🎉 Initial release

• Interactive dashboard
• Real-time memory metrics monitoring
• Real-time charts
• Automatic reconnection
• Flexible configuration

📄 License

MIT

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please open an issue or pull request on GitHub.

👨‍💻 Author

Jose Ignacio Movellan - @jimovellan

Enjoy monitoring your .NET applications! 🚀