Asynchronous HttpClient calls not shown as dependency in Azure App insights for App service automatically - azure

Question

I am new to Azure app insights and want to know why are Asynchronous HttpClient calls not shown as dependency automatically in Azure App insights for App service.
Also, what configuration changes or code changes should I make in ASP.NET project for tracking http dependencies ?
When I refer documentation it says "A dependency is a component that is called by your application. It's typically a service called using HTTP, or a database, or a file system. Application Insights measures the duration of dependency calls, whether its failing or not, along with additional information like name of dependency and so on. You can investigate specific dependency calls, and correlate them to requests and exceptions."

Answer 1

You can use the below example of code to track http dependency automatically
using Microsoft.ApplicationInsights;
using Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.DependencyCollector;
using Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Extensibility;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
namespace ConsoleApp
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
TelemetryConfiguration configuration = TelemetryConfiguration.CreateDefault();
configuration.InstrumentationKey = "removed";
configuration.TelemetryInitializers.Add(new HttpDependenciesParsingTelemetryInitializer());
var telemetryClient = new TelemetryClient(configuration);
using (InitializeDependencyTracking(configuration))
{
// run app...
telemetryClient.TrackTrace("Hello World!");
using (var httpClient = new HttpClient())
{
// Http dependency is automatically tracked!
httpClient.GetAsync("https://microsoft.com").Wait();
}
}
// before exit, flush the remaining data
telemetryClient.Flush();
// flush is not blocking when not using InMemoryChannel so wait a bit. There is an active issue regarding the need for `Sleep`/`Delay`
// which is tracked here: https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-dotnet/issues/407
Task.Delay(5000).Wait();
}
static DependencyTrackingTelemetryModule InitializeDependencyTracking(TelemetryConfiguration configuration)
{
var module = new DependencyTrackingTelemetryModule();
// prevent Correlation Id to be sent to certain endpoints. You may add other domains as needed.
module.ExcludeComponentCorrelationHttpHeadersOnDomains.Add("core.windows.net");
module.ExcludeComponentCorrelationHttpHeadersOnDomains.Add("core.chinacloudapi.cn");
module.ExcludeComponentCorrelationHttpHeadersOnDomains.Add("core.cloudapi.de");
module.ExcludeComponentCorrelationHttpHeadersOnDomains.Add("core.usgovcloudapi.net");
module.ExcludeComponentCorrelationHttpHeadersOnDomains.Add("localhost");
module.ExcludeComponentCorrelationHttpHeadersOnDomains.Add("127.0.0.1");
// enable known dependency tracking, note that in future versions, we will extend this list.
// please check default settings in https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-dotnet-server/blob/develop/WEB/Src/DependencyCollector/DependencyCollector/ApplicationInsights.config.install.xdt
module.IncludeDiagnosticSourceActivities.Add("Microsoft.Azure.ServiceBus");
module.IncludeDiagnosticSourceActivities.Add("Microsoft.Azure.EventHubs");
// initialize the module
module.Initialize(configuration);
return module;
}
}
}
NOTE: -
Based on the MSDOC Azure Monitor Application Insights Agent currently supports ASP.NET 4.x only.
For more information please refer the below links:
MS DOC: Application Insights for .NET console applications(Source code) & Automatically dependency tracking
GitHub : LINK1 & LINK2