In this episode, Software Engineer, Mike Rousos, joins Rich to go through some ways to diagnose thread pool exhaustion in your .NET apps. Mike discusses and demos a collection of .NET CLI tools and techniques that can be used on Windows or Linux environments. [00:00] - Intro [01:23] - How does thread pool exhaustion occur? [03:18] - Inspecting diagnostics using dotnet-counters [09:07] - Collecting and analyzing dumps with dotnet-dump [19:42] - Switching to the async API Thread pool exhaustion https://github.com/mjrousos/DotNetDiagnosticsSamples/tree/main/1-ThreadPoolExhaustion Investigate performance counters https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/diagnostics/dotnet-counters?WT.mc_id=dotnet-00000-cephilli Dump collection and analysis utility https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/diagnostics/dotnet-dump?WT.mc_id=dotnet-00000-cephilli Symbol downloader https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/diagnostics/dotnet-symbol?WT.mc_id=dotnet-00000-cephilli Get your questions answered on the Microsoft Q&A for .NET - http://aka.ms/dotnet-qa​ Learn .NET with free self-guided learning from Microsoft Learn: http://aka.ms/learndotnet #DotNet #Diagnostics