Improved: Developer Dashboard in SP2013

Michael Carey

- One minute read - 134 words

The developer dashboard was a great new feature when SP2010 was released, and now with SP2013 it has been further improved, with the key changes being:

  • The Dashboard now appears in a separate window - it isn’t rendered out at the bottom of the page you are diagnosing any more.

  • Cumulative page requests are shown, instead of just the last request.  This certainly helps in SP2013 given the use of Minimal Download Strategy (MDS).

  • The execution Plan of SharePoint stored procedures can now be viewed.

  • The dashbaord is implemented as separate WCF service named diagnosticsdata.svc

  • ULS Logs can be viewed through the browser (rather than opening the logs in ULSViewer or Wordpad) - but this should still be done from the server for security reasons

  • The Dashboard can now be extended with Javascript :)