The AppInsights SDK is quite simple to integrate with and provides rather rich functionality and extensibility, but it is now considered a “legacy” - Azure team announced focus switch to support OpenTelemetry: So, we should switch to using Azure.Monitor.OpenTelemetry.Exporter. That’s not a bad thing by itself, but there are not many guides on the migration process, especially for console applications like mine, and the Azure Exporter doesn’t support a lot of useful things I got used to. Also, it’s quite a shift in how things work and how they are named, so I decided to list the problems I faced and my solutions to them. ...

Welcome to my blog! I’m glad you’re here. In this post, I want to briefly share my story and the reasons for this blog. Who am I? My name is Lev Yastrebov, Lev is pronounced like [lʲef]. I live in Türkiye (Turkey). The warm sea and mountains are a hard-to-beat combo! I’ve been technically inclined all my life, starting with modeling clubs (ships, aero) in elementary school, then moving on to electronics, where I learned to solder and the basics of electronic components. At some point, I learned about microcontrollers and that was so much fun! I read a couple of guidebooks with theory and practical lessons and completed all the lessons from there, which gave me a solid understanding of ASM and C. ...