Cross process Application Insights with Multi-Role Application Map

When using Application Insights to monitor your Microservices environment, it would be nice to track calls over process boundaries. Application Insights has a preview for Multi-Role Application Maps. This enables you to visualize the dependencies over multiple processes and name the different processes. In this blog posts I will explain how to use Multi Role Application Maps, give you different process names and add dependency tracking into your application.

Application Shutdown in ASP.NET Core with IApplicationLifetime

When running an ASP.NET Core web application, there are cases when you need to do some logic when the application stops. An example: you are logging and have to flush the last message to the log (Application Insights). In that case you need can add an event in the Configure method. In this post I show a short example of how doing this.