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Introduction to New Relic for .NET

With our .NET agent for application performance monitoring, you can:

Screenshot showing an overview of the .NET agent in the UI

After installing the .NET agent, you'll see a summary of your app's performance on our APM Summary page.

Install the agent

To use the .NET agent:

  1. Make sure your system meets the .NET agent compatibility
  2. Sign up for a New Relic account.
  3. Install the .NET agent via the in-product launcher below or by following our standard install procedures in the docs.
Add .NET data

Support for both .NET Framework and .NET Core

New Relic's .NET agent supports both .NET Framework and .NET Core, and it works with all .NET compatible languages, such as VB.NET, C#, and CLI.

The agent's support for .NET Core takes advantage of the compatibility, speed, expanded API features, and cross-platform capabilities of Microsoft's .NET Core. The agent does not support Microsoft .NET Core versions earlier than 2.0.

With New Relic's support for .NET, you can monitor your apps in dynamic or distributed environments, such as:

  • Cloud-managed server VM images
  • On-host VM servers
  • Microsoft Azure App Services
  • Self-hosted Windows and Linux systems
  • AWS EC2 VMs

Extend your instrumentation

After installing the .NET agent, extend the agent's instrumentation with one or more of these methods:

Instrumentation options

Details

Browser instrumentation

Integrate the .NET agent with to gain visibility into end-user activity.

Custom instrumentation

Instrument transactions not captured as part of New Relic's automatic framework instrumentation.

Agent API

See the .NET agent API guide to learn how to customize the agent's behavior. For example, you can collect custom metrics, flag an error, or ignore a particular transaction entirely.

Custom attributes

Customize the attributes attached to transactions. Customizing attributes allows you to avoid sending sensitive attributes, or to collect additional attributes for deeper visibility into your transactions.

Distributed tracing

Enable distributed tracing to understand activity across a complex, distributed system that uses many services and microservices.

Open source telemetry

Explore these tools: OpenTelemetry exporter and .NET Telemetry SDK.

View logs for your APM and infrastructure data

You can also bring your logs and application's data together to make troubleshooting easier and faster. With logs in context, you can see log messages related to your errors and traces directly in your app's UI. You can also see logs in context of your infrastructure data, such as Kubernetes clusters. No need to switch to another UI page.

Check the source code

The .NET agent is open source software. That means you can browse its source code and send improvements, or create your own fork and build it. For more information, see the README.

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