Add support for Application Insights

[SeanFeldman]

Azure Service Bus plugs into AppInsights.
It would be good for customers using ASB with AppInsights to be able to see calls to the storage in the context of message receive/send operations.

[SeanFeldman]

@lmolkova is there any guidance for library creators on how to implement AppInsights support? Thank you.

[SeanFeldman]

@cijothomas, maybe you could point me in the right direction? Thank you.

[cijothomas]

Hi sorry for late reply.

Can you elaborate on the ask? Azure is embracing OpenTelemetry and any new features are going to come through OpenTelemetry. I'll need a bit more info on what you are trying to achieve before I can make more specific suggestion :)

[SeanFeldman]

@cijothomas no worries. This plugin is an extension to the Azure Service Bus library. What I'd like to achieve is to add tracing to the telemetry that customers get with ASB plus the additional calls this plugin is making to the storage accounts.

E.g., for incoming messages to tie into the message telemetry chain to show the storage call for the payload resolution. Or for outgoing messages to show a call to the storage for the payload saving. And, of course, information associated with the execution of the plugin itself.

[cijothomas]

The general direction ApplicationInsights is heading towards is OpenTelemetry and the new System.Diagnostics.Activity from .NET.
So instead of connecting to ApplicationInsights directly, the telemetry flow would be something like Instrumentation (using Activity API) -> OpenTelemetry SDK -> ApplicationInsightsExporter.

I can share more information on this direction if you think this is what you are looking for. There is opentelemetry repo (https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/) where most of the discussions are occuring, and there is a gitter channel to learn more as well.

Let me know if this is what you were looking for. I am not very familiar with SB and this plugin, so I may have misunderstood your requirmements.

[SeanFeldman]

I can share more information on this direction if you think this is what you are looking for

Yes, that sounds like what I'd like to do. Please share 😍

[cijothomas]

Sorry, forgot to come back to this

please join OpenTelemetry .NET channel : https://gitter.im/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet?utm_source=share-link&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=share-link

I'm in gitter so we can discuss more on this there.