Azure

A couple of years ago I crafted an internal-use utility for one of my clients that uses Azure Static Web Apps with Blazor and some Functions. That worked well, but the client asked to extend functionality, so I decided to refresh the code along the way. Back in the day, I wrote the utility using .NET 6 and in-process functions, since the out-of-process mode was not yet available. The current .NET 8 shifted focus to the out-of-process mode, which is much better and less tied to Azure SDK code. However, according to the Azure Functions docs, they still supports in-process mode, so I anticipated an easy migration. Well, I totally misjudged that! ...

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. ...