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Caution

The SignalFx Instrumentation for .NET is deprecated as of February 21, 2024 and will reach End of Support on February 21 2025. Until then, only critical security fixes and bug fixes will be provided. After the date, the library will be archived and no longer maintained.

New customers instrumenting the .NET ecosystem should use the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry .NET. Existing customers should consider migrating to Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry .NET which offers similar capabilities. To learn how to migrate, see Migrate from the SignalFx .NET Instrumentation.

.NET instrumentation compatibility and requirements 🔗

Meet the following requirements to instrument .NET applications for Splunk Observability Cloud:

Ensure you are using supported .NET versions 🔗

The SignalFx Instrumentation for .NET supports the following .NET versions:

  • Instrumentation for traces and metrics:

    • .NET 6.0 and .NET 7.0

    • .NET Framework 4.6.2 and higher

  • AlwaysOn Profiling:

    • .NET 6.0 and .NET 7.0.

Support for legacy .NET versions 🔗

Limited support is available for the following legacy versions of .NET:

  • Instrumentation for traces and metrics:

    • .NET Core 3.1

    • .NET 5.x

    • .NET Framework 4.6.1

  • AlwaysOn Profiling:

    • CPU Profiling: .NET Core 3.1 and .NET 5.x

    • Memory Profiling: .NET Core 5.x

Supported libraries 🔗

The SignalFx Instrumentation for .NET instruments the following libraries:

Library

Instrumentation ID

Aerospike.Client

Aerospike

ASP.NET 4.x

AspNet

ASP.NET Core

AspNetCore

ASP.NET MVC

AspNetMvc

ASP.NET Web API 2

AspNetWebApi2v

AWSSDK.Core (Experimental)

AwsSdk

AWSSDK.SQS (Experimental)

AwsSqs

Confluent.Kafka

Kafka

CouchbaseNetClient (Experimental)

Couchbase

Elasticsearch.Net

ElasticsearchNetv

GraphQL

GraphQL

gRPC

Grpc

Microsoft.Data.SqlClient and System.Data.SqlClient

SqlClient

Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions

ILOgger

Microsoft.Azure.Cosmos (Experimental)

CosmosDb

Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs (Experimental)

AzureFunctions

Microsoft.ServiceFabric.Services.Remoting (Experimental)

ServiceRemoting

Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestPlatform (Experimental)

MsTestV2

MongoDB.Driver.Core

MongoDb

MySql.Data

MySql

Npgsql

Npgsql

NUnit (Experimental)

NUnit

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess

Oracle

RabbitMQ.Client

RabbitMQ

ServiceStack.Redis

ServiceStacksRedis

SQLite

Sqlite

StackExchange.Redis

StackExchangeRedis

System.Net.Http.CurlHandler

CurlHandler

System.Net.Http.MessageHandler

HttpMessageHandler

System.Net.Http.SocketsHandler

HttpSocketsHandler

System.Net.Http.WinHttpHandler

WinHttpHandler

System.Net.WebRequest

WebRequest

System.Messaging (Experimental)

Msmq

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)

Wcf

xunit (Experimental)

XUnit

To instrument the System.Net.Http.HttpClient library, you must instrument the following group of libraries:

  • System.Net.Http.CurlHandler

  • System.Net.Http.MessageHandler

  • System.Net.Http.SocketsHandler

  • System.Net.Http.WinHttpHandler

Install and configure the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector 🔗

The SignalFx Instrumentation for .NET exports application traces and spans to the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector, which also collects system metric data and logs, including profiling data.

To send application traces and spans to Splunk Observability Cloud, install the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector for your platform. The following distributions are available:

Note

The OTel Collector is not required when instrumenting Azure App Service applications. See Instrument your application in Azure App Service.