检查生产ASP.NET进程的状态

Is there a way to check what a asp.net process is doing in production environment? In Linux, one can run a strace on a process id and know exactly what the process is doing. Can one do something similar on a asp.net process? Googling around tells me that you need to create dump files and then analyze the problem there, but what if I just want to check on the current state of the process? (like cache size, longest running thread, # of the specific object... etc).Is there a way to check what a asp.net process