.NET agent v8.20.262.0

New Features

• Improved support for WCF.

  • Support for Task-based (TAP) service calls.
  • Distributed Tracing and CAT are automatically supported for HTTP-based binding types (such as BasicHTTP, WebHTTP, WSHTTP).
  • Non-HTTP binding types (such as NetTCP, MSMQ, Named Pipes) are instrumented, but do not automatically support Distributed Tracing and CAT.

• [.NET Core] Adds support for .NET Core 3.1 beginning with preview 1.

• Performance Metrics: The .Net Agent collects information about application performance in the following areas.

  • Memory and CPU Utilization
  • Garbage Collection
  • Threadpool Usage and Throughput

  Please refer to online documentation for further information.

Fixes

• [.NET Framework] Fix an issue where reading application settings from web.config or app.config could prevent the agent from starting up.
• [.NET Framework] Fix an issue where the agent caused an application to deadlock when using a ConfigurationBuilder. This was commonly seen in applications using the AzureKeyVaultConfigBuilder.
• Fix an issue introduced in 8.16 where Memory and CPU metrics failed to update.

Upgrading

• Follow standard procedures to update the .NET agent.
• If you are upgrading from a particularly old agent, review the list of major changes and procedures to upgrade legacy .NET agents.