I have set up NLog to work with Applicatin Insights and also log js exceptions and is working as required. However, I am struggling with making the instrumentation key dynamic so it targets the environment specific application insight instance.
NLog config target
<target name="aiTarget" xsi:type="ApplicationInsightsTarget"
layout="${longdate}|${event-properties:item=EventId_Id:whenEmpty=0}|${uppercase:${level}}|${logger}|${message} ${exception:format=tostring}">
<instrumentationKey>"mydevappinsightinstrumentationkey"</instrumentationKey>
<contextproperty name="threadid" layout="${threadid}" />
</target>
Layout cshtm for JS exceptions
<script type="text/javascript">
!function (v, y, T) { var S = v.location, k = "script", D = "instrumentationKey", C = "ingestionendpoint", I = "disableExceptionTracking", E = "ai.device.", b = "toLowerCase", w = (D[b](), "crossOrigin"), N = "POST", e = "appInsightsSDK", t = T.name || "appInsights", n = ((T.name || v[e]) && (v[e] = t), v[t] || function (l) { var u = !1, d = !1, g = { initialize: !0, queue: [], sv: "6", version: 2, config: l }; function m(e, t) { var n = {}, a = "Browser"; return n[E + "id"] = a[b](), n[E + "type"] = a, n["ai.operation.name"] = S && S.pathname || "_unknown_", n["ai.internal.sdkVersion"] = "javascript:snippet_" + (g.sv || g.version), { time: (a = new Date).getUTCFullYear() + "-" + i(1 + a.getUTCMonth()) + "-" + i(a.getUTCDate()) + "T" + i(a.getUTCHours()) + ":" + i(a.getUTCMinutes()) + ":" + i(a.getUTCSeconds()) + "." + (a.getUTCMilliseconds() / 1e3).toFixed(3).slice(2, 5) + "Z", iKey: e, name: "Microsoft.ApplicationInsights." + e.replace(/-/g, "") + "." + t, sampleRate: 100, tags: n, data: { baseData: { ver: 2 } } }; function i(e) { e = "" + e; return 1 === e.length ? "0" + e : e } } var e, n, f = l.url || T.src; function a(e) { var t, n, a, i, o, s, r, c, p; u = !0, g.queue = [], d || (d = !0, i = f, r = (c = function () { var e, t = {}, n = l.connectionString; if (n) for (var a = n.split(";"), i = 0; i < a.length; i++) { var o = a[i].split("="); 2 === o.length && (t[o[0][b]()] = o[1]) } return t[C] || (t[C] = "https://" + ((e = (n = t.endpointsuffix) ? t.location : null) ? e + "." : "") + "dc." + (n || "services.visualstudio.com")), t }()).instrumentationkey || l[D] || "", c = (c = c[C]) ? c + "/v2/track" : l.endpointUrl, (p = []).push((t = "SDK LOAD Failure: Failed to load Application Insights SDK script (See stack for details)", n = i, o = c, (s = (a = m(r, "Exception")).data).baseType = "ExceptionData", s.baseData.exceptions = [{ typeName: "SDKLoadFailed", message: t.replace(/\./g, "-"), hasFullStack: !1, stack: t + "\nSnippet failed to load [" + n + "] -- Telemetry is disabled\nHelp Link: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2128109\nHost: " + (S && S.pathname || "_unknown_") + "\nEndpoint: " + o, parsedStack: [] }], a)), p.push((s = i, t = c, (o = (n = m(r, "Message")).data).baseType = "MessageData", (a = o.baseData).message = 'AI (Internal): 99 message:"' + ("SDK LOAD Failure: Failed to load Application Insights SDK script (See stack for details) (" + s + ")").replace(/\"/g, "") + '"', a.properties = { endpoint: t }, n)), i = p, r = c, JSON && ((o = v.fetch) && !T.useXhr ? o(r, { method: N, body: JSON.stringify(i), mode: "cors" }) : XMLHttpRequest && ((s = new XMLHttpRequest).open(N, r), s.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/json"), s.send(JSON.stringify(i))))) } function i(e, t) { d || setTimeout(function () { !t && g.core || a() }, 500) } f && ((n = y.createElement(k)).src = f, !(o = T[w]) && "" !== o || "undefined" == n[w] || (n[w] = o), n.onload = i, n.onerror = a, n.onreadystatechange = function (e, t) { "loaded" !== n.readyState && "complete" !== n.readyState || i(0, t) }, e = n, T.ld < 0 ? y.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(e) : setTimeout(function () { y.getElementsByTagName(k)[0].parentNode.appendChild(e) }, T.ld || 0)); try { g.cookie = y.cookie } catch (h) { } function t(e) { for (; e.length;)!function (t) { g[t] = function () { var e = arguments; u || g.queue.push(function () { g[t].apply(g, e) }) } }(e.pop()) } var s, r, o = "track", c = "TrackPage", p = "TrackEvent", o = (t([o + "Event", o + "PageView", o + "Exception", o + "Trace", o + "DependencyData", o + "Metric", o + "PageViewPerformance", "start" + c, "stop" + c, "start" + p, "stop" + p, "addTelemetryInitializer", "setAuthenticatedUserContext", "clearAuthenticatedUserContext", "flush"]), g.SeverityLevel = { Verbose: 0, Information: 1, Warning: 2, Error: 3, Critical: 4 }, (l.extensionConfig || {}).ApplicationInsightsAnalytics || {}); return !0 !== l[I] && !0 !== o[I] && (t(["_" + (s = "onerror")]), r = v[s], v[s] = function (e, t, n, a, i) { var o = r && r(e, t, n, a, i); return !0 !== o && g["_" + s]({ message: e, url: t, lineNumber: n, columnNumber: a, error: i, evt: v.event }), o }, l.autoExceptionInstrumented = !0), g }(T.cfg)); function a() { T.onInit && T.onInit(n) } (v[t] = n).queue && 0 === n.queue.length ? (n.queue.push(a), n.trackPageView({})) : a() }(window, document, {
src: "https://js.monitor.azure.com/scripts/b/ai.2.min.js",
crossOrigin: "anonymous",
cfg: {
connectionString: "InstrumentationKey=mydevappinsightinstrumentationkey;IngestionEndpoint=mydevappinsightingestionendpoint"
}
});
window.appInsights = appInsights;
appInsights.trackPageView();
try {
throw new Error("Logging Exception from Javascript");
} catch (error) {
appInsights.trackException("Logging Exception from Javascript.");
appInsights.trackException({ error });
}
</script>
How do I make the instrumentation key dynamic in the above scenarios?
For Layout cshtml you can do the following:
@using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration
@inject IConfiguration Configuration
connectionString: @Json.Serialize(Configuration.GetSection("ApplicationInsights")["ConnectionString"])
In my azure app service configuration, appsetting name is present in the following format: ApplicationInsights:ConnectionString and if reading from appsettings.json it should be in the following format:
"ApplicationInsights": {
"ConnectionString": "your app insight connection string here"
}
In Nlog config if you want to make the instrumentation key dynamic
${configsetting:item=ApplicationInsights.InstrumentationKey}
So your target will become:
<target name="aiTarget" xsi:type="ApplicationInsightsTarget"
layout="${longdate}|${event-properties:item=EventId_Id:whenEmpty=0}|${uppercase:${level}}|${logger}|${message} ${exception:format=tostring}">
<instrumentationKey>${configsetting:item=ApplicationInsights.InstrumentationKey}</instrumentationKey>
<contextproperty name="threadid" layout="${threadid}" />
</target>
Again ensure the same set up for app service configuration or appsetting json as I have shown in layout cshtml solution, only difference you will have is InstrumentationKey instead of ConnectionString