Logging, tracing and metrics: instrumentation in .NET and Azure - Alex Thissen - NDC London 2023

Ever had production problems and found that you cannot debug to find the problem? Or that you need to find out where potential issues are coming from in your Azure cloud solution and you have no idea what is happening? Your applications need to be instrumented with logging, tracing and metrics, so you can see what is going on where. In .NET logging and tracing are built into the framework. We will have a look at the differences between logging, tracing and instrumentation in general. You will learn how to use .NET to implement logging and tracing with best practices, do semantic logging, work with logging factories, trace providers. Also, you will learn how to instrument using Application Insights and add W3C compliant tracing for correlation across cloud resources in a distributed application. Finally, we will put everything together to see how your logs and traces can give a rich way to get insights into your applications and services running in the Azure cloud or container based solutions. Check out our new channel: NDC Clips: ‪@ndcclips‬ Check out more of our featured speakers and talks at https://ndcconferences.com/ https://ndclondon.com/