.NET Core Microservices Agent Support

Supported Runtime Environments

This section lists the environments where the .NET Microservices Agent does some automatic discovery after little or no configuration.

The .NET microservices agent works with .NET Core 2.0, 2.1, 3.0, and 3.1 on these operating systems:

Microsoft Windows Server 2012
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
Microsoft Windows Server 2016
Microsoft Windows Server 2019
Microsoft Windows 8, 8.1, 10

Microsoft Windows Azure

Azure App Services for .NET Core 2.0, 2.1, 3.0, and 3.1 environments in the Azure Portal:
- Web Apps
- API Apps
- Container Services

Automatically Discovered Business Transactions

The .NET Microservices Agent discovers business transactions for the following frameworks by default. The agent enables detection without additional configuration.

Type	Custom Configuration Options?	Downstream Correlation?
ASP.NET Core 3.0	Yes	Yes
Web Services including SOAP	No	Yes
Message Queues
Microsoft Service Bus	No	Yes
RabbitMQ	Yes	Yes

Supported Loggers for the .NET Agent

Log4Net
NLog
System Trace
Windows Event Log
Loggers on .NET Core that implement the Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.ILogger API (Linux Agent >= 4.5.19 and Windows Agent >= 21.2.0)

If you are using a different logger, see Error Detection.

Remote Service Detection

The .NET Agent automatically detects the following remote service types. The agent enables detection by default. You don't need to perform extra configuration.

Type	Custom Configuration Options?	Async Detection? *	Downstream Correlation?
HTTP	Yes	See Asynchronous Exit Points for .NET	Yes
MongoDB: C# and .NET MongoDB Driver version 1.10, 2.0	No	See Asynchronous Exit Points for .NET	N/A
Web Services, including SOAP	Yes	See Asynchronous Exit Points for .NET	Yes
Data Integration
Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010, 2013	No	Yes	See Correlation Over Microsoft BizTalk
Message Queues
Apache ActiveMQ NMS framework and related MQs	Yes	No	Yes
RabbitMQ	See RabbitMQ Backends for .NET.	No	Yes

* The agent discovers asynchronous transactions for the Microsoft .NET 4.5 framework. See Asynchronous Exit Points for .NET

Data Storage Detection

The .NET Agent automatically detects the following data storage types. The agent enables detection by default. You don't need to perform extra configuration.

Type	Customizable Configuration?	Async Detection?*	AppD for Databases?
ADO.NET (see supported clients below)	Yes	Yes	No

* The agent discovers asynchronous transactions for the Microsoft .NET 4.5 framework. See Asynchronous Exit Points for .NET

Supported ADO.NET Clients

AppDynamics can monitor any ADO.NET client version and type. Clients we have tested include the following:

Database Name	Database Version	Client Type
MySQL	5.x	Connector/Net and ADO.NET

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