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Implementing ASP.NET Core Automatic Span (Activity) Linking for Internal Redirects with Middleware on .NET 9

Today, I’ll continue a current theme for my content based on my experiences implementing OpenTelemetry instrumentation in practice for .NET applications. In this post, I want to focus on a minor enhancement I recently added to a project that enables span links between request traces on ASP.NET Core during internal redirects. NOTE: This code relies […]

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Disabling Recording of an Activity (span) in .NET OpenTelemetry Instrumentation header

Disabling Recording of an Activity (span) in .NET OpenTelemetry Instrumentation

I’ve recently been building some hobby code to dogfood the various observability tooling we develop at Elastic. Additionally, I’ve been interested in identifying the pain points of using our products as well as the .NET instrumentation libraries (from System.Diagnostics) used to instrument code in an OpenTelemetry-compatible way. Recording Activities in .NET In today’s short post, […]

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