AI Method 2

2. Traces, exceptions and plugin execution as dependencies

The second method of logging extends on the first by timing each execution and tracking them as dependencies, such that a timeline of plugin execution is formed in AI. We keep correlation of each trace item, but add a visual representation of our traces.
The timeline and logs would look like this:

Setting it up

1. Copy the DGTracingService and IDGTracingService into your plugins project
2. Insert your instrumentation key at the top of DGTracingService
   • It is also possible to fetch the instrumentation key with the OrganizationService that resides in the LocalPluginContext constructor step 4 uses
3. Inside Plugin.cs Add the following attribute above the LocalPluginContext constructor

internal IDGTracingService DGTracingService {
    get;

    private set;
}

4. Inside Plugin.css LocalPluginContext constructor below line containing this.TracingService = (ITracingService)serviceProvider.GetService(typeof(ITracingService)); add

this.TracingService = new DGTracingService(this.TracingService, this.PluginExecutionContext.CorrelationId);
this.DGTracingService = (IDGTracingService)this.TracingService;

5. Add the following before the Try block in the Execute function inside Plugin.cs

var startTime = DateTime.UtcNow;
var timer = System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch.StartNew();

6. Inside the Catch section of the Try/Catch/Finally section add this to the top

timer.Stop();
localcontext.DGTracingService.TraceException(e);

7. Inside the finally section of the Try/Catch/Finally section add this to the top

timer.Stop();
localcontext.DGTracingService.TraceDependency(
    localcontext.PluginExecutionContext.MessageName,
    localcontext.PluginExecutionContext.PrimaryEntityName, 
    this.ChildClassName,
    startTime, timer.Elapsed);

8. If you wish to show trace class names without namespace, add the following attribute above the Plugin constructor

protected string ChildClassNameSimple{
    get;
    private set;
}

And add this inside the Plugin constructor

this.ChildClassNameSimple = childClass.Name;