Diagnostics

📕 Articles

• DiagnosticSource User’s Guide
• Activity User Guide
• EventSource User’s Guide
• Diagnostic Source in.Net Core
• Improve Activity API usability and OpenTelemetry integration
• Improve Activity API usability and OpenTelemetry integration (Part 2)
• The TraceEvent Library Programmers Guide
• What diagnostic tools are available in .NET Core?
• .NET distributed tracing concepts
• Adding distributed tracing instrumentation
• Collect a distributed trace
• Activity Class
• ActivityListener Class
• ActivitySource Class
• ActivityLink Struct
• EventListener Class
• EventSource Class
• Introducing diagnostics improvements in .NET Core 3.0
• Diagnostics improvements in .NET 5
• Logging using DiagnosticSource in ASP.NET Core
• Using the DiagnosticSource in .NET Core: Theory
• Dumps
• EventCounters in .NET Core
• .NET Core logging and tracing
• .NET Diagnostics Tools: dump vs. gcdump
• Diagnostics in .Net Core 3: Listening to outbound HTTP requests
• .NET Tip: Performance Counters for MemoryCache
• Investigate performance counters (dotnet-counters)
• Use Performance Counters in .NET to measure Memory, CPU, and Everything – Full Guide
• Reporting Metrics Using .Net (Core) EventSource and EventCounte
• Creating a Custom ETW EventSource for Debugging High-Performance Code in C#
• Tracing with EventSource in .NET 4.5
• Exploring EventSource Activity (correlation and causation) Features
• DiagnosticSource User’s Guide
• Output Diagnostic Source to Event Source
• MassTransit DiagnosticSource
• MassTransit Performance counters
• Introducing Ukadc.Diagnostics
• From zero to logging with System.Diagnostics in 15 minutes
• Cross-platform diagnostic tools for .NET Core
• Observing .NET Core Counters (in CloudWatch)
• A Lap Around ActivitySource and ActivityListener in .NET 5
• Increasing Trace Cardinality with Activity Tags and Baggage
• Add SkyWalking + SkyApm-dotnet distributed link tracking system to the microservice framework Demo.MicroServer
• Using System.Diagnostic.DiagnosticSource to intercept database requests
• Diagnostic log Diagnosticsource in .NET CORE
• EventSource? DiagnosticSource? Both?
• .NET Core 2.2: Runtime Events
• ASP.NET Core Apps Observability
• OpenTelemetry .NET API
• OpenTelemetry in .NET
• Increasing Trace Cardinality with Activity Tags and Baggage
• Getting started with OpenTelemetry and distributed tracing in .NET Core
• Monitoring background task
• Profiling a .NET6 app running in a linux container with dotnet-trace, dotnet-dump, dotnet-counters, dotnet-gcdump and Visual Studio
• A brief introduction to DiagnosticSource
• Consuming anonymous types with DiagnosticListener in .NET 6

📺 Videos

• Diagnostics Improvements in .NET Core 3.0
• Introducing the Diagnostics Client Library for .NET Core
• Cool things you can do with .NET Core 3 Tooling - Jonathan Mezach
• DiagnosticSource and Activity, Tracing in .NET Part 1 - .NET Concept of the Week - Episode 18
• .NET Design Review: System.Diagnostics.Activity
• Diagnosing .NET 6 issues from sidecar containers using dotnet-monitor
• .NET Diagnostics for Applications: Best Practices
• dotnet-monitor Fundamentals - Accessing .NET Diagnostics Easier
• dotnet-monitor: Enabling a diagnostics sidecar in AKS

🚀 Samples

• gregkalapos/DiagnosticSource
• aspnet/AspNetCore/blob/master/src/Hosting/Hosting/src/Internal/HostingEventSource.cs
• aspnet/AspNetCore/blob/master/src/Servers/Kestrel/Core/src/Internal/Infrastructure/KestrelEventSource.cs
• SkyAPM-dotnet/SkyApm.Diagnostics.AspNetCore/HostingDiagnosticProcessor
• dotnet/runtime/DiagnosticsHandler
• dotnet/aspnetcore/HostingApplicationDiagnostics
• open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/OpenTelemetry.Instrumentation.StackExchangeRedis
• open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/OpenTelemetry.Instrumentation.SqlClient
• open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/OpenTelemetry.Instrumentation.AspNetCore
• open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/tree/main/src/OpenTelemetry.Instrumentation.Http
• open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/tree/main/src/OpenTelemetry.Instrumentation.GrpcNetClient
• jbogard/MongoDB.Driver.Core.Extensions.OpenTelemetry
• jbogard/MongoDB.Driver.Core.Extensions.DiagnosticSources
• open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/examples

📦 Libraries

• open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet - The OpenTelemetry .NET Client
• Azure/diagnostics-eventflow - Microsoft Diagnostics EventFlow
• bluekiri/bluekiri-diagnostics-prometheus - Exposes Diagnostic Source events as prometheus metrics using prometheus-net underneath
• sgryphon/essential-diagnostics - Essential.Diagnostics contains additional trace listeners, filters and utility classes for the .NET Framework System.Diagnostics trace logging. Included are colored console, SQL database, rolling file, Seq logging server, and in-memory trace listeners, expression filters, activity and logical operation scopes, and configuration file monitoring.
• SkyAPM/SkyAPM-dotnet
• open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/OpenTelemetry.Instrumentation.StackExchangeRedis
• open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/OpenTelemetry.Instrumentation.SqlClient
• open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/OpenTelemetry.Instrumentation.AspNetCore
• open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/tree/main/src/OpenTelemetry.Instrumentation.Http
• open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/tree/main/src/OpenTelemetry.Instrumentation.GrpcNetClient
• jbogard/MongoDB.Driver.Core.Extensions.OpenTelemetry
• jbogard/MongoDB.Driver.Core.Extensions.DiagnosticSources - extends the core MongoDB C# driver to expose telemetry information via System.Diagnostics.
• spectreconsole/errata - A library that makes it easy to create and display diagnostics of different kinds.
• alexvaluyskiy/prometheus-net-contrib - Exposes .NET core diagnostic listeners and counters