Application Insights Telemetry Enhancer

Add data to Microsoft Azure Application Insights

Features

• Add Application Insights Operation Id as a response header to alll of your app's responses
• Add request and response body to Application Insights Request Telemetry. You will see the body of every incomming API call, and the HTML of every page view.
• Add request and response body to Application Insights Dependency Telemetry. You will see the body of every API call your app makes to external APIs.

ASP.Net support

Only .Net Core 2.2 .Net Core 3.1 and .Net 5.0 are currently supported

Installing

You can search for this package in the Package Manager UI in Visual Studio, or see other installation instructions here:

https://www.nuget.org/packages/ApplicationInsightsTelemetryEnhancer

Make sure you get the correct version for your app.

• Version 2.2.* is for .Net Core 2.2
• Version 3.1.* is for .Net Core 3.1
• Version 5.0.* is for .Net 5.0

Usage

Operation Id Response Header

To add the operatrion id response header, add this line to the Configure method in Startup.cs

app.UseOperationIdHeader();

The default header name is Operation-Id In order to customize it, you can add a configuration section to your appsettings.json file:

"OperationIdHeader": {
  "HeaderName": "HeaderConfig"
}

After adding the configuration section, pass it in the following way in ConfigureServices method in Startup.cs:

services.AddOperationIdHeader(Configuration.GetSection("OperationIdHeader"));

Another way to customize the response header, is directrly in the ConfigureServices method:

services.AddOperationIdHeader(options =>
{
  options.HeaderName = "HeaderOptions";
});

Dependency Telemetry Enhancer

To add the request and response body of every external HTTP call, add this line to the ConfigureServices method in Startup.cs

services.AddDependencyTelemetryEnhancer();

The default custom dimentions are "Request" and "Response". In order to customize them, you can add a configuration section to your appsettings.json file:

"DependencyTelemetryEnhancer": {
    "RequestPropertyKey": "RequestConfig",
    "ResponsePropertyKey": "ResponseConfig"
}

After adding the configuration section, pass it in the following way in ConfigureServices method in Startup.cs:

services.AddDependencyTelemetryEnhancer(Configuration.GetSection("DependencyTelemetryEnhancer"));

Another way to customize the custom dimentions, is directrly in the ConfigureServices method:

services.AddDependencyTelemetryEnhancer(options =>
{
    options.RequestPropertyKey = "RequestOptions";
    options.ResponsePropertyKey = "ResponseOptions";
});

Request Telemetry Enhancer

To add the request and response body of every incomming HTTP call, add this line to the Configure method in Startup.cs

app.UseRequestTelemetryEnhancer();

The default custom dimentions are "Request" and "Response". In order to customize them, you can add a configuration section to your appsettings.json file:

"RequestTelemetryEnhancer": {
    "RequestPropertyKey": "RequestConfig",
    "ResponsePropertyKey": "ResponseConfig"
}

After adding the configuration section, pass it in the following way in ConfigureServices method in Startup.cs:

services.AddRequestTelemetryEnhancer(Configuration.GetSection("RequestTelemetryEnhancer"));

Another way to customize the custom dimentions, is directrly in the ConfigureServices method:

services.AddRequestTelemetryEnhancer(options =>
{
    options.RequestPropertyKey = "RequestOptions";
    options.ResponsePropertyKey = "ResponseOptions";
});