Google Cloud Observability for .NET

Google Cloud Observability provides powerful monitoring, logging, and diagnostics for .NET and .NET Core apps.

Instrumentation libraries

With the .NET and .NET Core instrumentation libraries, you can integrate Google Cloud Observability services with your app.

• The .NET instrumentation library includes support for the following Google Cloud Observability services:

  • Error Reporting
  • Cloud Trace

• The .NET Core instrumentation library includes support for the following Google Cloud Observability services:

  • Error Reporting
  • Logging
  • Trace

Error Reporting

Error Reporting aggregates and displays errors produced in your running .NET apps.

To get started with Error Reporting, see Setting up Error Reporting for .NET apps.

Cloud Logging

Logging lets you store, search, analyze, monitor, and alert on log data and events in .NET and .NET Core apps. A Log4Net agent is provided, as well as a Cloud Logging API client library.

To get started with Logging, see the following articles:

• Setting up Logging for .NET apps with Log4Net
• Setting up Logging for .NET Core apps

Cloud Monitoring

Monitoring collects metrics, events, and metadata from .NET apps. Monitoring ingests that data and generates insights with dashboards, charts, and alerts.

To get started with Monitoring, see the following articles:

• Cloud Client Libraries for the Cloud Monitoring API
• Installing the Monitoring agent on Windows
• Creating custom metrics
• Reading metrics
• Browsing metrics

Cloud Trace

Trace is a distributed tracing system for Google Cloud that collects latency data from .NET and .NET Core apps and displays it in near real time in the Google Cloud console.

To get started with Trace, see the following articles:

• Setting up Trace for .NET apps
• Setting up Trace for .NET Core apps