Although performance is quite important, it is often not given much thought until there are performance problems. Sometimes, efforts to improve performance are deliberately postponed until later in the project in order to free resources for other tasks. On the other hand, many developers may feel that performance should be given more attention but are unsure how.

This brings us to the Tracing cockpit and the Microsoft Dynamics AX Trace Parser. These are perhaps the most underused and underrated tools available to Microsoft Dynamics AX developers, but they are tools that developers should be using on a daily basis. Before you submit your code for testing, consider using the Tracing cockpit so you can detect and fix obvious performance problems before they cause any real problems.

The Tracing cockpit is a tool used to measure the overall performance of your code. When it is running, it collects information such as the time spent on each method, the number of round trips...