.NET Monitoring Quick Start Guide

Getting started with Instrumental and .NET

Here's how to get up and running with .NET application monitoring and Instrumental. Like all our agents, the .NET agent is designed to prevent exceptions from impacting your application. It's also completely non-blocking.

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Installation

If you are using NuGet, add Instrumental.NET to your packages.config:

<id="instrumental_agent" version="1.0.0" targetFramework="net45" />

Or download Instrumental.dll.

Add the agent and configure it with your project token:

using Instrumental;
var agent = new Agent("PROJECT_TOKEN");

Sending Metrics

Increments are simple counters. learn more

agent.Increment("myapp.logins");

Gauges represent a value at a point in time. learn more

agent.Gauge("myapp.api_results.count", 12345);

The time method measures a function call time.

Func action = () => { DoLongRunningAction(); return "everything is fine"; };
String actionResult = agent.Time("myapp.expensive_operation", action);

Sending Notices

Notices are project specific events.

agent.Notice("Deployed revision 038ade4 to production");
agent.Notice("event with a duration", TimeSpan.FromMinutes(15));

More .NET + Instrumental

Complete .NET Agent Docs

Everything to know about the Instrumental .NET agent!

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Where to Start Monitoring

Not sure what to measure? This guide will help you decide where to start!

read the guide

Using StatsD or statsite? We’ve got you covered with our StatsD backend and statsite sink