[QUERY] Controlling the "type" name of an OTEL activity in Application Insights

[mortenbock]

Library name and version

Azure.Monitor.OpenTelemetry.AspNetCore 1.2.0

Query/Question

I am trying to instrument a library so it adds dependency tracking when used in the application.

Looking at how the HttpClient is instrumented, I can see that it shows up in App Insights like this: HTTP: GET httpstat.us/200

Looking at the underlying item in the log, it has properties like this:

itemType: dependency
name: GET /200
target: httpstat.us
type: HTTP
data: https://httpstat.us/200

How can I control these properties when using the .StartActivity() method?

By default, I get something that looks like this:

itemType: dependency
name: MyActivityName
target: MyActivityName
type: InProc

1. Can I change the InProc type to something else?
2. Can I set different values in name and target?
3. Can I add information to the data field?

Environment

.NET SDK: Version: 8.0.300 Commit: 326f6e68b2 Workload version: 8.0.300-manifests.9e3391ed MSBuild version: 17.10.4+10fbfbf2e

Runtime Environment: OS Name: Windows OS Version: 10.0.22631 OS Platform: Windows RID: win-x64 Base Path: C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\8.0.300\

.NET workloads installed: [aspire] Installation Source: VS 17.10.34916.146 Manifest Version: 8.0.0/8.0.100 Manifest Path: C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk-manifests\8.0.100\microsoft.net.sdk.aspire\8.0.0\WorkloadManifest.json Install Type: Msi

Host: Version: 8.0.6 Architecture: x64 Commit: 3b8b000a0e

.NET SDKs installed: 6.0.423 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk] 7.0.410 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk] 8.0.106 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk] 8.0.300 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]

.NET runtimes installed: Microsoft.AspNetCore.All 2.1.30 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.All] Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 2.1.30 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 3.1.32 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 5.0.17 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 6.0.30 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 6.0.31 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 7.0.19 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 7.0.20 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 8.0.5 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 8.0.6 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 2.1.30 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 3.1.32 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 5.0.17 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.30 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.31 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 7.0.19 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 7.0.20 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 8.0.5 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 8.0.6 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 3.1.32 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App] Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 5.0.17 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App] Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 6.0.30 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App] Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 6.0.31 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App] Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 7.0.19 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App] Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 7.0.20 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App] Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 8.0.5 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App] Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 8.0.6 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App]

Other architectures found: x86 [C:\Program Files (x86)\dotnet] registered at [HKLM\SOFTWARE\dotnet\Setup\InstalledVersions\x86\InstallLocation]

Environment variables: Not set

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