Adding MySQL to Application Insights

Question

Application Insights does not support tracking for MySQL dependencies out of the box, so I would like to add it as my project relies heavily on MySQL.EF6.

Per the documentation here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/app-insights-api-custom-events-metrics/#track-dependency

It is possible to add tracking, however to avoid having to wrap every call I make to my database, I would like to override the MySQL.EF6 Library functions of SaveChanges, SaveChangesAsync, Find, FirstOrDefault, etc.

However I am unsure how to accomplish anymore than the SaveChanges/SaveChangesAsync as they are easily overrideable in my DbContext class.

Answer 1

You can try using EF6 logging - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/dn469464.aspx.