title: What key performance monitors should I watch for ASP.NET application
body: <p>I have a site that receives 5 million request per day. On heavy days, the pages take about 10 seconds to return. I also get out of memory exceptions. I've been reading the <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms998530.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability</a> from Microsoft and see there are a lot of metrics I could watch. My question is:</p>
  
  <p>What are the most basic counters I should be watching that will :</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Tell me where the 10 seconds is spent</li>
  <li>Tell me where the memory is being
  used?</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>this is an ASP.NET 2.0 app running on Win2003 with IIS6</p>