--- title: Glimpse Reviews meta\_title: 'Glimpse Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Glimpse works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 5.0 review\_count: 2 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2025-10-31' parent\_category: name: Monitoring url: https://www.g2.com/categories/monitoring --- # Glimpse Reviews & Product Details The Diagnostics platform of the web. Providing real time diagnostics & insights to the fingertips of hundreds of thousands of developers daily Watch it in action Play with it Install it today! * * * Seller [Microsoft](https://www.g2.com/sellers/microsoft) Discussions [Glimpse Community](https://www.g2.com/products/glimpse/discuss) Show More ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Dynatrace](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Dynatrace") Dynatrace 4.5/5(1,366) ](https://www.g2.com/products/dynatrace/reviews) [ ![Datadog](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Datadog") Datadog 4.4/5(726) ](https://www.g2.com/products/datadog/reviews) [ ![New Relic](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "New Relic") New Relic 4.4/5(586) ](https://www.g2.com/products/new-relic/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/glimpse/competitors/alternatives) ![Verified User in Government Administration](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Government Administration") IG Verified User in Government Administration Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/29/2016 "Web Inspector on steroids" 5/5 What do you like best about Glimpse? A great web request inspector that displays insight and can help with debugging. Provides superior information when compared to IE or Chrome's developers tools. Debugging, Tracing, extensible and open source. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Glimpse? Security concerns about it being open source and having to install additional software on pre-existing software to help troubleshoot. Some of this information be can found with existing server tools and developer debugging tools without the need to layer software on top of software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Glimpse: Look at the potential security implications and if data is available to the developer group already. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Glimpse solving and how is that benefiting you? Quick troubleshooting without having to involve the server support guys. We are able to get more detailed information without having to involve other teams outside of the developer group. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Peter N.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Peter N.") PN Peter N. Senior Software Developer Banking Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/30/2016 "There's no reason not to use Glimpse in ASP.Net Applications" 5/5 What do you like best about Glimpse? Glimpse should be included in any ASP.Net systems you build from now on. Full stop. It's free, it's secure and extremely useful. The performance measurement is excellent, but the feature that really got me to love Glimpse was Entity Framework SQL query tracing. So much performance is tied up in SQL queries, so having transparency into the actual SQL being run is fantastic. And it's free and open source, what more do you want? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Glimpse? It's not a tool that you'd likely run all the time on production system because of the overhead. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Glimpse: Be ready to invest a bit of time into making it accessible on remote systems for the best experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Glimpse solving and how is that benefiting you? I use glimpse for tuning systems and finding the bottleneck that needs focus. By showing both the front and back end code paths Glimpse offers a holistic view few paid tools can match. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ### There are not enough reviews of Glimpse for G2 to provide buying insight. 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