We have an application which is based on micro services architecture and we have enabled application insights for the application. We have multiple asp.net Web APIs which call each other and also are called from angular based UI. Currently we are able to trace all the telemetry through Operation Id which is constant or same for all telemetry. Till here everything works fine . But next we want to enable hierarchical correlation so that we can know when a Request is triggered what all other requests / dependencies it is triggering and if there are any exceptions which request caused it .
What I want to know is if this is enabled by default (below I have given my applicationinsghts.config) or is there a step by step guide telling what are the steps we need to follow to enable this kind of correlation.
I have already gone through most of the documentation which is on MSDN and other resources and understand conceptually how it works but I am not able to find a code sample or example which does this for a setup like us.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ApplicationInsights xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ApplicationInsights/2013/Settings">
<TelemetryConfiguration>
</TelemetryConfiguration>
<TelemetryInitializers>
<Add Type="ApplicationInsights.OwinExtensions.OperationIdTelemetryInitializer, ApplicationInsights.OwinExtensions"/>
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.DependencyCollector.HttpDependenciesParsingTelemetryInitializer, Microsoft.AI.DependencyCollector"/>
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.WindowsServer.AzureRoleEnvironmentTelemetryInitializer, Microsoft.AI.WindowsServer"/>
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.WindowsServer.AzureWebAppRoleEnvironmentTelemetryInitializer, Microsoft.AI.WindowsServer"/>
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.WindowsServer.BuildInfoConfigComponentVersionTelemetryInitializer, Microsoft.AI.WindowsServer"/>
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web.WebTestTelemetryInitializer, Microsoft.AI.Web"/>
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web.SyntheticUserAgentTelemetryInitializer, Microsoft.AI.Web">
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<Filters>search|spider|crawl|Bot|Monitor|AlwaysOn</Filters>
</Add>
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web.ClientIpHeaderTelemetryInitializer, Microsoft.AI.Web"/>
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web.OperationNameTelemetryInitializer, Microsoft.AI.Web"/>
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web.OperationCorrelationTelemetryInitializer, Microsoft.AI.Web"/>
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web.UserTelemetryInitializer, Microsoft.AI.Web"/>
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web.AuthenticatedUserIdTelemetryInitializer, Microsoft.AI.Web"/>
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web.AccountIdTelemetryInitializer, Microsoft.AI.Web"/>
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web.SessionTelemetryInitializer, Microsoft.AI.Web"/>
</TelemetryInitializers>
<TelemetryModules>
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.DependencyCollector.DependencyTrackingTelemetryModule, Microsoft.AI.DependencyCollector">
<ExcludeComponentCorrelationHttpHeadersOnDomains>
<!--
Requests to the following hostnames will not be modified by adding correlation headers.
This is only applicable if Profiler is installed via either StatusMonitor or Azure Extension.
Add entries here to exclude additional hostnames.
NOTE: this configuration will be lost upon NuGet upgrade.
-->
<Add>core.windows.net</Add>
<Add>core.chinacloudapi.cn</Add>
<Add>core.cloudapi.de</Add>
<Add>core.usgovcloudapi.net</Add>
</ExcludeComponentCorrelationHttpHeadersOnDomains>
</Add>
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Extensibility.PerfCounterCollector.PerformanceCollectorModule, Microsoft.AI.PerfCounterCollector">
<!--
Use the following syntax here to collect additional performance counters:
<Counters>
<Add PerformanceCounter="\Process(??APP_WIN32_PROC??)\Handle Count" ReportAs="Process handle count" />
...
</Counters>
PerformanceCounter must be either \CategoryName(InstanceName)\CounterName or \CategoryName\CounterName
NOTE: performance counters configuration will be lost upon NuGet upgrade.
The following placeholders are supported as InstanceName:
??APP_WIN32_PROC?? - instance name of the application process for Win32 counters.
??APP_W3SVC_PROC?? - instance name of the application IIS worker process for IIS/ASP.NET counters.
??APP_CLR_PROC?? - instance name of the application CLR process for .NET counters.
-->
</Add>
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Extensibility.PerfCounterCollector.QuickPulse.QuickPulseTelemetryModule, Microsoft.AI.PerfCounterCollector"/>
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.WindowsServer.DeveloperModeWithDebuggerAttachedTelemetryModule, Microsoft.AI.WindowsServer"/>
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.WindowsServer.UnhandledExceptionTelemetryModule, Microsoft.AI.WindowsServer"/>
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.WindowsServer.UnobservedExceptionTelemetryModule, Microsoft.AI.WindowsServer">
<!--</Add>
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.WindowsServer.FirstChanceExceptionStatisticsTelemetryModule, Microsoft.AI.WindowsServer">-->
</Add>
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web.RequestTrackingTelemetryModule, Microsoft.AI.Web">
<Handlers>
<!--
Add entries here to filter out additional handlers:
NOTE: handler configuration will be lost upon NuGet upgrade.
-->
<Add>System.Web.Handlers.TransferRequestHandler</Add>
<Add>Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.PageInspector.Runtime.Tracing.RequestDataHttpHandler</Add>
<Add>System.Web.StaticFileHandler</Add>
<Add>System.Web.Handlers.AssemblyResourceLoader</Add>
<Add>System.Web.Optimization.BundleHandler</Add>
<Add>System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptHandlerFactory</Add>
<Add>System.Web.Handlers.TraceHandler</Add>
<Add>System.Web.Services.Discovery.DiscoveryRequestHandler</Add>
<Add>System.Web.HttpDebugHandler</Add>
</Handlers>
</Add>
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web.ExceptionTrackingTelemetryModule, Microsoft.AI.Web"/>
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web.AspNetDiagnosticTelemetryModule, Microsoft.AI.Web"/>
</TelemetryModules>
<TelemetryProcessors>
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Extensibility.PerfCounterCollector.QuickPulse.QuickPulseTelemetryProcessor, Microsoft.AI.PerfCounterCollector"/>
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Extensibility.AutocollectedMetricsExtractor, Microsoft.ApplicationInsights"/>
<!--<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.WindowsServer.TelemetryChannel.AdaptiveSamplingTelemetryProcessor, Microsoft.AI.ServerTelemetryChannel">
<MaxTelemetryItemsPerSecond>5</MaxTelemetryItemsPerSecond>
<ExcludedTypes>Event</ExcludedTypes>
</Add>
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.WindowsServer.TelemetryChannel.AdaptiveSamplingTelemetryProcessor, Microsoft.AI.ServerTelemetryChannel">
<MaxTelemetryItemsPerSecond>5</MaxTelemetryItemsPerSecond>
<IncludedTypes>Event</IncludedTypes>
</Add>-->
</TelemetryProcessors>
<TelemetryChannel Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.WindowsServer.TelemetryChannel.ServerTelemetryChannel, Microsoft.AI.ServerTelemetryChannel"/>
<!--
Learn more about Application Insights configuration with ApplicationInsights.config here:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=513840
Note: If not present, please add <InstrumentationKey>Your Key</InstrumentationKey> to the top of this file.
--></ApplicationInsights>
