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Diagnostic Events

This library has recently added DiagnosticSources to offer an Instrumentation API to collect diagnostic events. To get started we need to add two packages and implement two classes. So lets get started.

Installation

We need to add the required packages.

For .Net Core we use the dotnet CLI. Which is perhaps the most preferred way doing this.

dotnet add package System.Diagnostics.DiagnosticSource
dotnet add package Microsoft.Extensions.DiagnosticAdapter

And for .Net Framework we still use the following line.

Install-Package System.Diagnostics.DiagnosticSource
Install-Package Microsoft.Extensions.DiagnosticAdapter

Implement Diagnostic Listener

After we added those two packages we can start listening to Green Donut diagnostic events by implementing a DiagnosticListener.

First we implement the DiagnosticListener.

C#
using System;
using System.Collections.Concurrent;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;
using Microsoft.Extensions.DiagnosticAdapter;
namespace Demo
{
public class CustomListener
{
// here you see the complete set of diagnostic events we can listen to.
// here we usually add just those events we want to listen to.
// for example if we are not interested to get informed about values
// loaded from the cache then we just remove the complete method.
[DiagnosticName("GreenDonut.ExecuteBatchRequest")]
public void EnableExecuteBatchRequest()
{
// this event remains empty. it is required to enable the fetch
// activity. if you remove this event, ExecuteBatchRequest.Start and
// ExecuteBatchRequest.Stop stop working.
}
[DiagnosticName("GreenDonut.ExecuteBatchRequest.Start")]
public void HandleExecuteBatchRequestStart(
IReadOnlyList<object> keys)
{
// here goes our code to handle activity start.
}
[DiagnosticName("GreenDonut.ExecuteBatchRequest.Stop")]
public void HandleExecuteBatchRequestStop(
IReadOnlyList<object> keys,
IReadOnlyList<object> values)
{
// here goes our code to handle activity stop.
}
[DiagnosticName("GreenDonut.ExecuteSingleRequest")]
public void EnableExecuteSingleRequest()
{
// this event remains empty. it is required to enable the fetch
// activity. if you remove this event, ExecuteSingleRequest.Start
// and ExecuteSingleRequest.Stop stop working.
}
[DiagnosticName("GreenDonut.ExecuteSingleRequest.Start")]
public void HandleExecuteSingleRequestStart(
object key)
{
// here goes our code to handle activity start.
}
[DiagnosticName("GreenDonut.ExecuteSingleRequest.Stop")]
public void HandleExecuteSingleRequestStop(
object key,
IReadOnlyList<object> values)
{
// here goes our code to handle activity stop.
}
[DiagnosticName("GreenDonut.BatchError")]
public void HandleBatchError(
IReadOnlyList<object> keys,
Exception exception)
{
// here goes our code to handle batch errors which occur during
// fetch.
}
[DiagnosticName("GreenDonut.CachedValue")]
public void HandleCachedValue(object key, object cacheKey, object value)
{
// here goes our code to handle values coming from the cache.
}
[DiagnosticName("GreenDonut.Error")]
public void HandleError(object key, Exception exception)
{
// here goes our code to handle result errors which occur during
// fetch.
}
}
}

Then we need to implement an Observer to subscribe to the Green Donut DiagnosticSource which produces the diagnostic events.

C#
using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
namespace Demo
{
public class CustomObserver
: IObserver<DiagnosticListener>
{
private readonly CustomListener _listener;
public CustomObserver(CustomListener listener)
{
_listener = listener ??
throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(listener));
}
public void OnCompleted() { }
public void OnError(Exception error) { }
public void OnNext(DiagnosticListener value)
{
if (value.Name == "GreenDonut")
{
value.SubscribeWithAdapter(_listener);
}
}
}
}

Subscribe to Events

Last but not least we must subscribe to the Green Donut DiagnosticSource.

C#
// subscribe
var listener = new CustomListener();
var observer = new CustomObserver(listener);
var subscription = DiagnosticListener.AllListeners.Subscribe(observer);
// unsubscribe
subscription.Dispose();

Note

  • Remember to dispose your subscription if you would like to stop listening to diagnostic events.
  • Keep in mind that this code is not production ready. It is meant to give you an idea how it works.