Adding Diagnostic monitoring to Azure

If you want to get some diagnostics from Windows Azure deployed applications then follow the instructions on: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee843890

This gives you a solution like:

    public static class AzureDiagnostics

    {

        public static void InitializeAzureDiagnostics()

        {

            // do not run this code if we're not running in the cloud.

            if (!Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime.RoleEnvironment.IsAvailable)

                return;

 

            // Enabled the capture of partial crash dumps

            Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Diagnostics.CrashDumps.EnableCollection(false);

 

            // configure and start the diagnostics

            DiagnosticMonitorConfiguration dmc = DiagnosticMonitor.GetDefaultInitialConfiguration();

 

            AddPerformanceCounters(dmc);

            AddLogs(dmc);

            AddSystemEventLog(dmc);

            AddInfrastructureLogs(dmc);

 

            DiagnosticMonitor.Start("DiagnosticsConnectionString", dmc);

        }

 

        private static void AddInfrastructureLogs(DiagnosticMonitorConfiguration dmc)

        {

            dmc.DiagnosticInfrastructureLogs.ScheduledTransferLogLevelFilter = LogLevel.Verbose;

            dmc.DiagnosticInfrastructureLogs.ScheduledTransferPeriod = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(10.0);

        }

 

        private static void AddSystemEventLog(DiagnosticMonitorConfiguration dmc)

        {

            // Add event collection from the Windows Event Log

            dmc.WindowsEventLog.DataSources.Add("System!*");

            dmc.WindowsEventLog.ScheduledTransferLogLevelFilter = LogLevel.Verbose;

            dmc.WindowsEventLog.ScheduledTransferPeriod = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(10);

        }

 

        private static void AddLogs(DiagnosticMonitorConfiguration dmc)

        {

            dmc.Logs.ScheduledTransferPeriod = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(10);

            dmc.Logs.ScheduledTransferLogLevelFilter = LogLevel.Verbose;           

        }

 

        private static void AddPerformanceCounters(DiagnosticMonitorConfiguration dmc)

        {

            List<string> counters = new List<string>();

            counters.Add(@"\Processor(_Total)\% Processor Time");

            counters.Add(@"\Memory\Available Mbytes");

            counters.Add(@"\TCPv4\Connections Established");

            counters.Add(@"\ASP.NET Applications(__Total__)\Requests/Sec");

            // These network interfaces removed - not that interesting for now

            //counters.Add(@"\Network Interface(*)\Bytes Received/sec");

            //counters.Add(@"\Network Interface(*)\Bytes Sent/sec");

            foreach (string counter in counters)

            {

                PerformanceCounterConfiguration counterConfig = new PerformanceCounterConfiguration();

                counterConfig.CounterSpecifier = counter;

                counterConfig.SampleRate = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10);

                dmc.PerformanceCounters.DataSources.Add(counterConfig);

            }

            dmc.PerformanceCounters.ScheduledTransferPeriod = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(5.0);

        }

    }