A reed-marsh ASP.NET Core API needs traces, metrics, and logs in Ap…

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A reed-marsh ASP.NET Core API needs traces, metrics, and logs in Application Insights without a handwritten exporter. What should the developer add?

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The Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro pointed at the Application Insights connection string. — Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro is the current server path—drop it in, set the connection string, ship traces/metrics/logs. Skip homemade exporters and Redis “telemetry.”

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Only a hand-rolled UDP exporter that ignores Microsoft’s server instrumentation guidance.

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Azure Cache for Redis as the only telemetry pipeline.

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A Logic Apps workflow that polls logs every hour instead of instrumenting the API.

A reed-marsh ASP.NET Core API needs traces, metrics, and logs in Application Insights without a handwritten exporter. What should the developer add?

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