# Inspecting application metrics with dotnet-monitor

dotnet-monitor is a command line tool that makes it easier to get access to diagnostics information in a dotnet process.

In the episode, Rich is joined by Sourabh who explains to us the importance of gathering application diagnostics and also gives us a demo of how to run dotnet-monitor in Kubernetes.

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<ul>
<li><a href="https://aka.ms/dotnet-monitor" target="_blank">Introducing dotnet-monitor</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/dotnet/diagnostics/" target="_blank">.NET Diagnostics on GitHub</a></li>
<li><a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/diagnostics/diagnostics-in-containers?WT.mc_id=dotnet-00000-cephilli" target="_blank">Collect diagnostics in containers</a></li>
<li><a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/diagnostics/?WT.mc_id=dotnet-00000-cephilli" target="_blank">What diagnostic tools are available in .NET Core?</a></li>
</ul>