Pre-requisites for Deploying the eG .NET Core Profiler

As already mentioned, eG .NET Core profiler is capable of monitoring transactions to .NET Core applications running on Kestrel and/or IIS web servers.

The following are the pre-requisites for performing .NET Core business transaction monitoring for Kestrel and IIS web servers:

  • An eG manager 7.2 and above

  • An eG agent on every Kestrel web server in the transaction path; if multiple .NET Core instances on a single server are monitored, then a single eG agent on that server would be sufficient.

  • The eG .NET Core profiler is supported only in the following environments:

    • Supported Operating Systems

      • CentOS 64-bit

      • Ubuntu 64-bit

      • Microsoft Windows Server 2012

      • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2

      • Microsoft Windows Server 2016

      • Microsoft Windows Server 2019

      • Microsoft Windows Server 2022

      • Microsoft Windows 7, 8.1, 10

    • Supported Web Servers
      • Kestrel web server running as a stand alone server or as a service;

      • Microsoft IIS versions 7.0, 7.5, 8.0, 8.5,10

    • Supported Frameworks
      • Microsoft .NET Core versions 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 3.0, 3.1, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0

      • Open Web Interface for .NET Core Web API

      • ASP .NET core MVC 2.0, 2.1. 2.2, 3.0,3.1, 5.0, 6.0

      • RAZOR

      • BLAZOR

    • Supported Data Storage Types and Clients

      The .NET Core profiler supports the ADO.NET data storage type and the following ADO.NET clients:

      Database Name

      Client Type

      Oracle

      ODP.NET and Microsoft Provider for Oracle

      MySQL

      Connector/Net and ADO.NET

      Microsoft SQL Server

      ADO.NET

      PostgreSQL

      Object-relational database

      Sqlite

      Self-contained

      EntityFramework

      Code First and Database First

      Mongo

      C# and .NET MongoDB Driver

    • Supported Remote Procedure Calls
      • HTTP

      • AJAX asynchronous calls and Signalr client calls are supported

    • Supported Message Queue Calls
      • RabbitMQ

      • ActiveMQ

    • Supported Windows Azure Remote Services
      • Azure Table Storage

      • Azure MySQL

      • Azure SQL

    • Managed Windows Service
      • Web API

      • WCF-based Service

    • Supported Loggers for the .NET Core BTM
      • NLog

      • Log4Net

      • Event Log

      • Serilog

  • For complete visibility into the transaction path, make sure that you BTM-enable each Kestrel and/or IIS web server in the transaction path.

  • To track and profile transactions to multiple web sites on an IIS web server, you need to add a separate Microsoft IIS component in eG Enterprise for each web site to be monitored.

  • To track and profile transactions to multiple web sites on a Kestrel web server, you should manage each web site as a separate Kestrel Web component in eG Enterprise, with each component configured to listen on a different port;