Automatic Instrumentation

Server Integration

Sentry's ASP.NET Core integration includes middleware to automatically capture each incoming HTTP request and turn it into a transaction.

Transaction names follow the pattern <HTTP method> <Route>; for example, a request to the following action will create a transaction named GET /person/{id}:

using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;

public class HomeController : Controller
{
    [HttpGet("/person/{id}")]
    public IActionResult Person(string id) { /* ... */ }
}

Transactions created by this integration are automatically added to the current scope. If you want to start your own spans from the automatically created transaction, you can use the following approach:

using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
using Sentry;

public class HomeController : Controller
{
    private readonly IHub _sentryHub;

    public HomeController(IHub sentryHub) => _sentryHub = sentryHub;

    [HttpGet("/person/{id}")]
    public IActionResult Person(string id)
    {
        var childSpan = _sentryHub.GetSpan()?.StartChild("additional-work");
        try
        {
            // Do the work that gets measured.

            childSpan?.Finish(SpanStatus.Ok);
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            childSpan?.Finish(SpanStatus.InternalError);
            throw;
        }
    }
}

HTTP Client Integration

Sentry also provides a custom filter for HTTP client factory commonly used in ASP.NET Core applications. This filter adds an additional message handler that automatically injects Sentry's trace header and tracks outgoing HTTP requests in separate spans attached to the current transaction.

To enable this integration, you need to have HTTP client factory enabled within your application:

using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Routing;
using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;

public class Startup
{
    public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
    {
        /* ... */

        services.AddRouting();

        // This is required for HTTP client integration
        services.AddHttpClient();
    }
}

If you already have AddHttpClient() in your service collection (which is likely the case), then no action is required.

DiagnosticSource Integration

Starting with version 3.9.0, the SDK automatically integrates with Entity Framework Core and SQLClient whenever available. Those integrations are automatically activated if your project matches one of the following conditions:

• Includes Sentry.AspNet 3.9.0 or higher
• Includes Sentry.AspNetCore 3.9.0 or higher
• Includes Sentry 3.9.0 and targets .NET Core 3.0 or higher (for example, .NET 5)

If you don't want to have this integration, you can disable it on SentryOptions by calling DisableDiagnosticSourceIntegration();

option.DisableDiagnosticSourceIntegration();

If your project doesn't match any of the conditions above, (for example, it targets .NET Framework 4.6.1 and uses only the Sentry package), you can still manually activate those instrumentations by including the package Sentry.DiagnosticSource and enabling it during on the SDK's initialization.

// Requires NuGet package: Sentry.DiagnosticSource
option.AddDiagnosticSourceIntegration();

Entity Framework Core Integration

This integration is part of the DiagnosticSource integration and will automatically create spans for EF Core queries for the following operations:

Query compiling

Occurs when EF Core optimizes a query. It then caches it so that future queries with the same input get reused. The parameters for this span are:

• Operation: db.query_compiler

• Description: The query to be compiled

Database connection

Represents the lifecycle of a database connection. One connection may contain one or more query execution spans, and, in some circumstances, may not be registered, due to the nature of the EF Core event model. The parameters for this span are:

• Operation: db.connection

Query Execution

Happens during the execution of a query. It represents how long a query took to be executed The parameters for this span are:

• Operation: db.query

• Description: The query to be executed.

SQLClient Integration

This integration is part of the DiagnosticSource integration and will automatically create spans for SQLClient operations, the integrated operations are:

Database connection

Represents the lifecycle of a database connection. One connection may contain one or more query execution spans. The parameters for this span are:

• Operation: db.connection

• db.connection_id: The Connection ID from the connection.

• db.operation_id: The Operation ID from the connection.

• rows_sent: The number of rows sent during the connection.

• bytes_received: The amount of data (in bytes) received during the connection.

• bytes_sent: The amount of data (in bytes) sent during the connection.

Query Execution

Happens during the execution of a query. It represents how long a query took to be executed. The parameters for this span are:

• Operation: db.query

• Description: The query to be executed.

• db.operation_id: The Operation ID from the connection.