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 disablednHelp Link: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2128109nHost: " + (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?
2
Answers
For Layout cshtml you can do the following:
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:
In Nlog config if you want to make the instrumentation key dynamic
${configsetting:item=ApplicationInsights.InstrumentationKey}
So your target will become:
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
The instrumentation key can be set to dynamic so it targets the environment-specific application insight instance like below.
npm install applicationinsights config
mkdir config
config
directory within your project to store environment-specific configuration files.mkdir config
Configure Application Insights
In your Azure portal, create an Application Insights resource if you haven’t already. You’ll need the instrumentation key for this resource.
Create Configuration Files
Inside the
config
directory, create two configuration files:development.json
andproduction.json
. Replace"YOUR_DEVELOPMENT_INSTRUMENTATION_KEY"
and"YOUR_PRODUCTION_INSTRUMENTATION_KEY"
with your actual instrumentation keys.development.json
set NODE_ENV=development
in bash and run the code.In Layout cshtm for JS: