WCF service operation name

Question

Is there a way to configure App Insights to collect the operation name when monitoring a WCF service? All requests get lumped together by URL (which are just POSTs that end in .svc), so there is no easy way to determine which particular operation was called on the service.

Does there need to be a custom Telemetry Initializer that can somehow determine which operation was actually called and set a custom property? if so, how do you determine the current WCF operation name?

Answer 1

Another option for collecting data on WCF operations is to use the Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Wcf Nuget package. You can read more about this here.

Answer 2

Brett,

Operation name can be customized in two ways:

1) Using a custom telemetry initializer - that specifically sets operation name. For more information about telemetry initializers: Custom Telemetry Initializers

2) From sdk version 2-beta3, auto-generated request telemetry is accessible though HttpContext extension method:

System.Web.HttpContextExtension.GetRequestTelemetry

Once the request telemetry is retrieved, operation name associated with it can be changed.

Please let me know if this addressed your question.

Thanks, Karthik