Business Central ALTool: graph and snapshot commands, with profiling still marked preview
🛠️ Microsoft's ALTool reference documents graph analysis and snapshot debugging alongside AL MCP and language-server commands. The . NET tools package supplies the `al` command for developer machines and automated build environments.
The performance-profiling MCP proxy is explicitly marked preview, requiring a prerelease of runtime 18 and Business Central Server 29.
This is more specific than the update 29.0 overview's GA label for agent-assisted session profiling; the two official descriptions are not fully aligned. Do not assume every tool shown in the Directions toolbox has the same availability status.
Partner briefing
- What it is
Command-line AL development and agent troubleshooting tools.
- What’s changing
The reference includes graph, snapshot, MCP and language-server commands.
- Why it matters
Profiling has an explicit preview requirement despite the broader release overview's GA wording.
- Who it affects
AL developers and partners building automated development workflows.