WebTelemetryInitializerBase in ASP.NET Core / MVC6

Question

Is there an MVC6 compatible version of WebTelemetryInitializerBase that would work with ASP.NET Core (on the full .NET Framework)?

See my question here where I asked how to get HttpContext in my temeletry initializers. Unfortunately I didn't specify that I was using MVC 6 and thus no System.Web.HttpContext.

Answer 1

Yes, there is a version of this for aspnetcore. Check out the Microsoft Application Insights for ASP.NET Core applications repo.

There is an implementation of getting the WebUser found in /src/Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.AspNetCore/TelemetryInitializers/WebUserTelemetryInitializer.cs which you can use as a guide.

The TelemetryInitializerBase class is the one that consumes the IHttpContextAccessor which is used to get the HttpContext.

From there you can get the Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.HttpContext.User which is they type of System.Security.Claims.ClaimsPrincipal