Send cloud role name to appinsight using serilog

Question

I use serilog to send traces to appinsights

this is my code

 Log.Logger = new LoggerConfiguration()
                    .Enrich.WithProperty("AppName", Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Name)
                    .Enrich.FromLogContext()
                    .Enrich.WithClientIp()
                    .Enrich.WithCorrelationIdHeader()
                    .WriteTo.ApplicationInsights(telemetryConfiguration, new SerilogAppInsightsTraceTelemetryConverter(), Serilog.Events.LogEventLevel.Information)

But I dont see cloud_rolename in appinsights

I registered this telemetry, but it doesnt send the cloud_rolename to azure

services.AddSingleton<ITelemetryInitializer,GlobalTelemetryInitializer> ();

This is my telemetry class

 public class GlobalTelemetryInitializer : ITelemetryInitializer
    {
        public const string appName = "app-Mkt";
        public const string appNameValue = "Configuration";
        public void Initialize(ITelemetry telemetry)
        {
            telemetry.Context.Cloud.RoleName = $"ctp-mkt-{appNameValue.ToLower()}";
        }
    }

Answer 1

Hi @juan maximiliano aguilar abanto ,

I don't see anything wrong with your GlobalTelemetryInitializer. I also walked over to Serilog Application Insights Sinks and I see that your code snippets came from here. Honestly, I assume the Serilog SDK should pull ITelemetryInitializer from the IoC container and that isn't happening in your case. It could be a bug in Serilog but to work around it, you can definitely include builder.Services.AddApplicationInsightsTelemetry() and that should pick up your RoleName. I didn't add Serilog to my project but in my setup, I can see the role name being updated in the requests table.