Glimpse/Glimpse

Health v2 · maintenance only

Flags: archived

Adoption not part of the score

2304 stars · 411 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Glimpse is an open-source diagnostics platform for ASP.NET web applications that inspects requests in real time, profiling server-side activity, database calls, view rendering, and routing. It presents insights in-browser via HTML/CSS/JS with no proprietary browser plugin required.

Use cases

• profile asp.net mvc request performance with a gantt chart
• debug slow or excessive database queries in a web app
• see how asp.net routes are matched for a request
• inspect view resolution and rendering paths
• view trace statements without digging through log files
• decode viewstate in asp.net webforms
• inspect ajax and historical requests

When to choose

• you maintain a legacy ASP.NET or ASP.NET MVC/WebForms application and need in-browser diagnostics
• you want lightweight profiling without a proprietary browser extension
• you need route debugging and server configuration visibility in .NET

When to avoid

• you are starting a new project - the project is abandoned and v2 work moved to an unfinished prototype
• you use ASP.NET Core or non-.NET stacks - Glimpse targets classic ASP.NET
• you need actively maintained monitoring - prefer modern APM or Application Insights tooling

Facets

library · maturity abandoned

monitoring tracing logging benchmarking middleware web-development developer-tools performance dotnet aspnet profiling diagnostics request-inspection gantt-chart route-debugging nuget debugging web-server iis

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