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Version: v0.2.0

Write different telemetry types

Logs are a great way to gain insights, but sometimes they are not the best approach for the job.

We provide the capability to track the following telemetry types on top of ILogger with good support on Serilog:

For most optimal output, we recommend using our Azure Application Insights sink.

We highly encourage to provide contextual information to all your telemetry to make it more powerful and support this for all telemetry types.

💡 For sake of simplicity we have not included how to track contextual information, for more information see our documentation.

Installation​

This feature requires to install our NuGet package

PM > Install-Package Arcus.Observability.Telemetry.Core -Version 0.2.0

Dependencies​

Dependencies allow you to track how your external dependencies are doing to give you insights on performance and error rate.

Since measuring dependencies can add some noise in your code, we've introduced DependencyMeasurement to make it simpler. (docs)

Measuring Azure Blob Storage dependencies​

We allow you to measure Azure Blob Storage dependencies.

Here is how you can report a dependency call:

using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;

var durationMeasurement = new Stopwatch();

// Start measuring
durationMeasurement.Start();
var startTime = DateTimeOffset.UtcNow;

_logger.LogBlobStorageDependency(accountName: "multimedia", containerName: "images", isSuccessful: true, startTime, durationMeasurement.Elapsed);
// Output: "Dependency Azure blob multimedia named images in 00:00:00.2521801 at 03/23/2020 09:56:31 +00:00 (Successful: True - Context: )"

Measuring Azure Cosmos DB dependencies​

We allow you to measure Azure Cosmos dependencies.

Here is how you can report a dependency call:

Cosmos SQL

using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;

var durationMeasurement = new Stopwatch();

// Start measuring
durationMeasurement.Start();
var startTime = DateTimeOffset.UtcNow;

_logger.LogCosmosSqlDependency(accountName: "administration", database: "docs", container: "purchases", isSuccessful: true, startTime: startTime, duration: durationMeasurement.Elapsed);
// Output: "Dependency Azure DocumentDB docs/purchases named administration in 00:00:00.2521801 at 03/23/2020 09:56:31 +00:00 (Successful: True - Context: )"

Measuring Azure Event Hubs dependencies​

We allow you to measure Azure Event Hubs dependencies.

Here is how you can report a dependency call:

using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;

var durationMeasurement = new Stopwatch();

// Start measuring
durationMeasurement.Start();
var startTime = DateTimeOffset.UtcNow;

_logger.LogEventHubsDependency(namespaceName: "be.sensors.contoso", eventHubName: "temperature", isSuccessful: true, startTime: startTime, duration: durationMeasurement.Elapsed);
// Output: "Dependency Azure Event Hubs be.sensors.contoso named temperature in 00:00:00.2521801 at 03/23/2020 09:56:31 +00:00 (Successful: True - Context: )"

Measuring Azure IoT Hub dependencies​

We allow you to measure Azure IoT Hub dependencies.

Here is how you can report a dependency call:

using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;

var durationMeasurement = new Stopwatch();

// Start measuring
durationMeasurement.Start();
var startTime = DateTimeOffset.UtcNow;

_logger.logger.LogIotHubDependency(iotHubName: "sensors", isSuccessful: true, startTime: startTime, duration: durationMeasurement.Elapsed);
// Output: "Dependency Azure IoT Hub named sensors in 00:00:00.2521801 at 03/23/2020 09:56:31 +00:00 (Successful: True - Context: )"

Measuring Azure Service Bus dependencies​

We allow you to measure Azure Service Bus dependencies for both queues & topics.

Here is how you can report an Azure Service Bus Queue dependency:

using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;

var durationMeasurement = new Stopwatch();

// Start measuring
durationMeasurement.Start();
var startTime = DateTimeOffset.UtcNow;

_logger.LogServiceBusQueueDependency(queueName: "ordersqueue", isSuccessful: true, startTime: startTime, duration: durationMeasurement.Elapsed);
// Output: "Dependency Azure Service Bus Queue named ordersqueue in 00:00:00.2521801 at 03/23/2020 09:56:31 +00:00 (Successful: True - Context: )"

Note that we have an LogServiceBusTopicDependency to log dependency logs for an Azure Service Bus Topic and an LogServiceBusDependency to log Azure Service Bus logs where the entity type is not known.

Measuring Azure Table Storage Dependencies​

We allow you to measure Azure Table Storage dependencies.

Here is how you can report a dependency call:

using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;

var durationMeasurement = new Stopwatch();

// Start measuring
durationMeasurement.Start();
var startTime = DateTimeOffset.UtcNow;

_logger.LogTableStorageDependency(accountName: "orderAccount", tableName: "orders", isSuccessful: true, startTime: startTime, duration: durationMeasurement.Elapsed);
// Output: "Dependency Azure table orders named orderAccount in 00:00:00.2521801 at 03/23/2020 09:56:31 +00:00 (Successful: True - Context: )"

Measuring HTTP dependencies​

Here is how you can report a HTTP dependency:

using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;

var durationMeasurement = new Stopwatch();

// Create request
var request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Post, "http://requestbin.net/r/ujxglouj")
{
    Content = new StringContent("{\"message\":\"Hello World!\"")
};

// Start measuring
durationMeasurement.Start();
var startTime = DateTimeOffset.UtcNow;
// Send request to dependant service
var response = await httpClient.SendAsync(request);

_logger.LogHttpDependency(request, statusCode: response.StatusCode, startTime: startTime, duration: durationMeasurement.Elapsed);
// Output: "HTTP Dependency requestbin.net for POST /r/ujxglouj completed with 200 in 00:00:00.2521801 at 03/23/2020 09:56:31 +00:00 (Successful: True - Context: )"

Measuring SQL dependencies​

Here is how you can report a SQL dependency:

using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;

var durationMeasurement = new Stopwatch();

// Start measuring
var startTime = DateTimeOffset.UtcNow;
durationMeasurement.Start();

// Interact with database
var products = await _repository.GetProducts();

_logger.LogSqlDependency("sample-server", "sample-database", "my-table", "get-products", isSuccessful: true, startTime: startTime, duration: durationMeasurement.Elapsed);
// Output: "SQL Dependency sample-server for sample-database/my-table for operation get-products in 00:00:01.2396312 at 03/23/2020 09:32:02 +00:00 (Successful: True - Context: )"

Or alternatively, when one already got the SQL connection string, you can use the overload that takes this directly:

using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;

string connectionString = "Server=sample-server;Database=sample-database;User=admin;Password=123";
var durationMeasurement = new Stopwatch();

// Start measuring
var startTime = DateTimeOffset.UtcNow;
durationMeasurement.Start();

// Interact with database
var products = await _repository.GetProducts();

_logger.LogSqlDependency(connectionString, "my-table", "get-products", isSuccessful: true, measurement: measurement);
// Output: "SQL Dependency sample-server for sample-database/my-table for operation get-products in 00:00:01.2396312 at 03/23/2020 09:32:02 +00:00 (Successful: True - Context: )"

Measuring custom dependencies​

Here is how you can measure a custom dependency:

using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;

var durationMeasurement = new Stopwatch();

// Start measuring
var startTime = DateTimeOffset.UtcNow;
durationMeasurement.Start();

string dependencyName = "SendGrid";
object dependencyData = "http://my.sendgrid.uri/"

_logger.LogDependency("SendGrid", dependencyData, isSuccessful: true, startTime: startTime, duration: durationMeasurement.Elapsed);
// Output: "Dependency SendGrid http://my.sendgrid.uri/ in 00:00:01.2396312 at 03/23/2020 09:32:02 +00:00 (Successful: True - Context: )"

Making it easier to measure dependencies​

Measuring dependencies means you need to keep track of how long the action took and when it started.

Here's a small example:

using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;

var durationMeasurement = new Stopwatch();
var startTime = DateTimeOffset.UtcNow;
durationMeasurement.Start();

// Do action

/// Track dependency
string dependencyName = "SendGrid";
object dependencyData = "http://my.sendgrid.uri/"
_logger.LogDependency("SendGrid", dependencyData, isSuccessful: true, startTime: startTime, duration: durationMeasurement.Elapsed, context: telemetryContext);

However, by using DependencyMeasurement.Start() we take care of the measuring aspect:

using Arcus.Observability.Telemetry.Core;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;

// Start measuring
using (var measurement = DependencyMeasurement.Start())
{
    // Do Action

    // Track dependency
    string dependencyName = "SendGrid";
    object dependencyData = "http://my.sendgrid.uri/"
    _logger.LogDependency("SendGrid", dependencyData, isSuccessful: true, startTime: measurement, context: telemetryContext);
}

Events​

Events allow you to report custom events which are a great way to track business-related events.

Here is how you can report an Order Created event:

using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;

logger.LogEvent("Order Created");
// Output: "Events Order Created (Context: )"

Security Events​

Some events are considered "security events" when they relate to possible malicious activity, authentication, input validation...

Here is how an invalid Order can be reported:

using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;

logger.LogSecurityEvent("Invalid Order");
// Output: "Events Invalid Order (Context: )"

Metrics​

Metrics allow you to report custom metrics which allow you to give insights on application-specific metrics.

Here is how you can report an Invoice Received metric:

using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;

logger.LogMetric("Invoice Received", 133.37, telemetryContext);
// Output: "Metric Invoice Received: 133.37 (Context: )"

Requests​

Requests allow you to keep track of the HTTP requests that are performed against your API and what the response was that was sent out.

Here is how you can keep track of requests:

using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;

// Determine calling tenant
string tenantName = "Unknown";
if (httpContext.Request?.Headers?.ContainsKey("X-Tenant") == true)
{
    tenantName = httpContext.Request.Headers["X-Tenant"];
}

var stopWatch = Stopwatch.StartNew();

// Perform action that creates a response, in this case call next middleware in the chain.
await _next(httpContext);

logger.LogRequest(httpContext.Request, httpContext.Response, stopWatch.Elapsed);
// Output: "HTTP Request GET http://localhost:5000//weatherforecast completed with 200 in 00:00:00.0191554 at 03/23/2020 10:12:55 +00:00 - (Context: )"