Cheatsheets - A list of varied cheatsheets to accomplish common ASP.NET Core tasks

Turn-on-app-insights.md

• Add Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.AspNetCore to the list of packages.
• Add the application insights logger to Program.cs

Host.CreateDefaultBuilder(args)
    .ConfigureLogging(l =>
    {
        l.AddApplicationInsights();
    })
    .ConfigureWebHostDefaults(webBuilder =>
    {
        webBuilder.UseStartup<Startup>();
    });

• Configure logging in appSettings.json

{
  "Logging": {
    "ApplicationInsights": {
      "LogLevel": {
        "<<Category>>": "Debug"
      }
    }
  },
  "AllowedHosts": "*"
}

• Go to Application Insights and click on Logs (Analytics)
• Data will take a bit to show up.
• Use a query like the following to query for events in a given category.

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| where customDimensions.CategoryName contains "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components"