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JesseYoung
JesseYoung

Reputation: 105

Application Insights setting user in RequestTelemetry context not showing up in event details

I am using Application Insights to track usage of my application. In my service layer I am using the App Insights API to manually track requests and exceptions and have disabled the default sets of telemetry initializers and modules that track request and exceptions in favor of some custom instrumentation based on the framework I am using. However, when I manually track a request like this I do not see any user information in the request details on the Application Insights dashboard.

A simplified version that demonstrates the issue I am having:

Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Extensibility.TelemetryConfiguration.Active
    .InstrumentationKey = "<InstrumentationKey>";
var tc = new TelemetryClient();
var request = new RequestTelemetry();
request.Context.User.Id = "1234";
request.Name = "Test Request";
tc.TrackRequest(request);

EDIT 11/30/15

This was a bug in the application insights portal. It has since been resolved.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 2653

Answers (4)

Todd King
Todd King

Reputation: 21

I recently discovered that if UserAgent is not set in the telemetry context, the user and session data will be ignored. Try setting Context.User.UserAgent to something (ideally HttpContext.Request.UserAgent but any non-empty string should work).

Upvotes: 1

Bret Grinslade MSFTEmployee
Bret Grinslade MSFTEmployee

Reputation: 66

It should work. We are investigating the issue.

I created an issue here: https://github.com/Microsoft/ApplicationInsights-dotnet/issues/111

Upvotes: 2

Oleg Ananiev
Oleg Ananiev

Reputation: 901

Try setting SessionId, in addition to Userid. We automatically nullify Userid when sessionId is null

Upvotes: 1

Todd King
Todd King

Reputation: 21

That should work, I've done something similar. To clarify you are seeing your custom request telemetry show up in the dashboard but you're not seeing any data in your users charts? You could try also setting the AuthenticatedUserId field as well to see if that works.

Upvotes: 1

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