Windows Azure Diagnostics Error: - azure

Question

I am working with Windows Azure Diagnostics. I add the below code in Webrol.cs
try
{
string wadConnectionString = "Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Plugins.Diagnostics.ConnectionString";
CloudStorageAccount storageAccount = CloudStorageAccount.Parse(RoleEnvironment.GetConfigurationSettingValue(wadConnectionString));
RoleInstanceDiagnosticManager roleInstanceDiagnosticManager = storageAccount.CreateRoleInstanceDiagnosticManager(RoleEnvironment.DeploymentId, RoleEnvironment.CurrentRoleInstance.Role.Name, RoleEnvironment.CurrentRoleInstance.Id);
DiagnosticMonitorConfiguration config = DiagnosticMonitor.GetDefaultInitialConfiguration();
//Windows Azure logs
config.Logs.ScheduledTransferPeriod = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1D);
config.Logs.ScheduledTransferLogLevelFilter = LogLevel.Undefined;
//IIS 7.0 logs
config.Directories.ScheduledTransferPeriod = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1D);
////Failed Request logs
config.Directories.ScheduledTransferPeriod = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1D);
//Windows Event logs
// config.WindowsEventLog.DataSources.Add("System!*");
config.WindowsEventLog.DataSources.Add("Application!*");
config.WindowsEventLog.ScheduledTransferPeriod = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1D);
////Crash dumps
CrashDumps.EnableCollection(true);
//update the config with changes
roleInstanceDiagnosticManager.SetCurrentConfiguration(config);
}
catch (Exception ee)
{
System.Diagnostics.Trace.TraceWarning("Diagnostics failed");
}
and the remaining neccesary things in Web.config and the connection string in the .cscfg file.
Now I am able to log the Diagnostics in the from the Development environment using the Deployment Storage. But when i host the same application in Cloud I am not able to log the Diagnostics. I am getting an error like
"500 - Internal server error.
There is a problem with the resource you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed."
I tried by changing Copy local to true for the namespaces, but that doesn't work.
I want the application to work in the deployment environment.
If anyone have any idea to resolve this please reply me.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

The problem looks like you are not changing the connection string for "Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Plugins.Diagnostics.ConnectionString". You can change this in the settings for the web role project or you service configuration file. Set it to your account name and key. I normally do this with a build script so I can change this when I push to production. You can check out the post here and the code here.