DependencyTelemetry.TryGetOperationDetail isn't as helpful as it could be

[IanKemp]

See microsoft/ApplicationInsights-dotnet-server#897.

1. There is no indication as to what values can be passed as the key.
2. There is no type-safety in the values returned.

tl;dr there's no way for anyone to know that they can call

if (myDependencyTelemetryInstance.TryGetOperationDetail("HttpRequest", out var rawMsg)
    && rawMsg is HttpRequestMessage message)
{
    // do something with message
}

The only reason I know to do the above is because I trawled through issues and PRs in this repo. Most people probably won't be as patient, and they shouldn't need to be.

Suggestion

1. Publicly expose relevant RemoteDependencyConstants keys.
2. Add specific overloads on DependencyTelemetry that reflect what HttpCoreDiagnosticSourceListener and HttpProcessing are storing:

  bool TryGetHttpRequestOperationDetail(out HttpRequestMessage message);
  bool TryGetHttpResponseOperationDetail(out HttpResponseMessage message);
  bool TryGetHttpResponseHeadersOperationDetail(out WebHeaderCollection headers);

3. Actually publicise the existence of these predefined keys and values in the official docs for DependencyTelemetry.TryGetOperationDetail.

[cijothomas]

Ian Kemp (@IanKemp) you are right, this feature is not publicly documented. It's a good idea to public expose the keys. Tagging as an enhancement.

[cijothomas]

Need to evaluate if similar concept can be extended to Requesttelemetry as well. We have quite large number of customers asking for mechanism to read request/response body. While it can't be done by SDK by default (privacy etc.), if we populate the request/response objects in this way, users can access it in initializer and add to telemetry as desired.

[H0110WED]

Any update on this? Just having the list of keys and values would be great in the meantime.

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[IanKemp]

Not stale.

[OskarKlintrot]

I think I can give this a shot when #2524 gets merged. Shouldn't be too hard hopefully, it looks like it will be pretty straight forward.

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Need to evaluate if similar concept can be extended to Requesttelemetry as well. We have quite large number of customers asking for mechanism to read request/response body. While it can't be done by SDK by default (privacy etc.), if we populate the request/response objects in this way, users can access it in initializer and add to telemetry as desired.
Cijo Thomas (@cijothomas)

That would be very helpful! I guess that could be a separat issue? We are adding the body today in middleware's, would be very neat to be able to use initializers like we can with DependencyTelemetry.

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[IanKemp]

Not stale, reopen!