GA plan for Microsoft.Azure.Functions.Worker.ApplicationInsights

[brettsam]

There are several outstanding work items needed before the Microsoft.Azure.Functions.Worker.ApplicationInsights nuget package can be declared generally available (GA).

We'll be resolving any related App Insights issues here and making sure there is a central place to bring up issues that we can add to this list. Once the package is GA, we'll close this and handle new issues as we would any other package.

To fix the issue with App Insights logs missing from Console logging in Core Tools:

• Allow worker packages to specify capabilities (adding ability to manipulate capabilities #1183)
• Host release that includes App Insights PR (modifying approach to ignoring app insights coming from workers azure-functions-host#8965) must be in production
• Update App Insights worker package to specify WorkerApplicationInsightsLoggingEnabled #1264

OpenTelemetry support (on worker only):

• Move Activity creation into core worker SDK #1358
• Finalize Activity and Tag values; Enable versioning of these values should they change in the future #1359

Documentation:

• Explain the split between worker and host logging. Especially how configuration is managed for each (adding AI project #944 (comment))

[jacobjmarks]

Might I also suggest that the Net7Worker sample be updated to include proper Application Insights configuration when available? I have recently been on the rollercoaster that is AI configuration for .NET 7 Isolated Workers and at this point I'm very much interested in some official documented solutions.

[JayAtSherweb]

Your documentation seems to outline how to use in an application, but not an isolated function.
Please help.

[fgheysels]

Is there already any progress or news regarding the General Availability of this package ?
The latest release of this (preview) package is already 5 months old. Is this project still alive ?

[Shumigaj]

Functions with HttpTrigger don't work with Microsoft.Azure.Functions.Worker 1.8.0 and Microsoft.Azure.Functions.Worker.ApplicationInsights 1.0.0-preview3 packages. The problem is solved by updating Microsoft.Azure.Functions.Worker to 1.10.0 version

[stijnmoreels]

Functions with HttpTrigger don't work with Microsoft.Azure.Functions.Worker 1.8.0 and Microsoft.Azure.Functions.Worker.ApplicationInsights 1.0.0-preview3 packages. The problem is solved by updating Microsoft.Azure.Functions.Worker to 1.10.0 version

How does custom telemetry then work, as there is no more TelemetryClient registered in the dependency container?

[stijnmoreels]

@Shumigaj any update on this?

[Shumigaj]

My functions doesn't work at all with Microsoft.Azure.Functions.Worker 1.8.0 and Microsoft.Azure.Functions.Worker.ApplicationInsights 1.0.0-preview3 packages. I couldn't make any requests to it on my local machine until I just updated Microsoft.Azure.Functions.Worker to 1.10.0 version, after that update everything works as expected. I wanted to mention this side effect with the version because it seems that there is no limitation for the version of the Microsoft.Azure.Functions.Worker package in the Microsoft.Azure.Functions.Worker.ApplicationInsights package.

[stijnmoreels]

My functions doesn't work at all with Microsoft.Azure.Functions.Worker 1.8.0 and Microsoft.Azure.Functions.Worker.ApplicationInsights 1.0.0-preview3 packages. I couldn't make any requests to it on my local machine until I just updated Microsoft.Azure.Functions.Worker to 1.10.0 version, after that update everything works as expected. I wanted to mention this side effect with the version because it seems that there is no limitation for the version of the Microsoft.Azure.Functions.Worker package in the Microsoft.Azure.Functions.Worker.ApplicationInsights package.

Yes, ok, but how does custom telemetry work with this? As it is the preview package that registers the TelemetryClient, @Shumigaj ?

[stijnmoreels]

Could you please provide some feedback on how to do custom telemetry in isolated Azure Functions, without using the Microsoft.Azure.Functions.Worker.ApplicationInsights package?
As no TelemetryClient or TelemetryConfiguration is registered in the application services when solely using the Microsoft.Azure.Functions.Worker package.

@Shumigaj
FYI @fgheysels @pim-simons

[Shumigaj]

It is possible, just use Microsoft.ApplicationInsights and Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.WorkerService packages. Dependencies can be registered by AddApplicationInsightsTelemetryWorkerService method. But, there are drawbacks of this approach (e.g. operation id won't be populated)

[ChrisProlls]

Any news about this ?
Will the previewXX packages prevents us from upgrading our Function to .NET 8 in the future ?

[stijnmoreels]

But, there are drawbacks of this approach (e.g. operation id won't be populated)

Then it is rather pointless to use this approach when there's no service-to-service/transactional correlation available; feels like an incomplete workaround.

The preview package is still the best solution, here.

[renjums]

I see the package is available as stable in Nuget. https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Azure.Functions.Worker.ApplicationInsights/1.0.0

Is this thread still open ?

[mattchenderson]

We wanted to wait for the Azure Update. But yes, now closeable.