Is it possible to profile Azure App Service using DotTrace remotely?

Hi Karol,

Currently, neither Console Profiler nor Remote Agent can be used to profile applications hosted on Azure App Services. The only currently available way to profile such applications with dotTrace is our profiling SDK. But we are currently researching the possibility of profiling Azure App Services using console profiler or maybe some extension for Azure.

I've also answered you in the corresponding support ticket.

Hi, thanks for the replies.

Using the SDK + Nuget package I get to the timeout exception when trying to attach the profiler using the following code (on the app service, but not locally where it works fine).

private void AttachProfiler(ProfilingType profilingType)
    {
        var folder = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory;
        CurrentProfilingType = profilingType.ToString();

        SelfAttach.Attach(new SaveSnapshotProfilingConfig
        {
            ProfilingControlKind = ProfilingControlKind.Api,
            SaveDir = Path.Combine(folder, "Temp") ,
            RedistDir = Path.Combine(folder, "_JetBrains.Profiler.SelfSdk.2019.1.3"),
            ProfilingType = profilingType,
            ListFile = GetListFile(folder)
        });
        SleepUntilAttachedOrTimedOut();
    }

    private static string GetListFile(string folder)
    {
        return Path.Combine(folder, "snapshot_list.xml");
    }

    private void SleepUntilAttachedOrTimedOut()
    {
        var totalMilliseconds = 0;

        while (!CheckProfilerAttached())
        {
            var intervalMilliseconds = 250;

            Thread.Sleep(intervalMilliseconds);

            totalMilliseconds += intervalMilliseconds;

            if (totalMilliseconds >= 60000)
            {
                throw new TimeoutException("Could not attach profiler. Timeout.");
            }
        }
    }

    private bool CheckProfilerAttached() => SelfAttach.State == SelfApiState.Active;

You're right, there is a permission issue inside SelfAttach.Attach() method, it can't work without an access to the registry. I'm sorry for misleading you. So, unfortunately, currently you can't profile Azure App Service with our SDK.

I'd love to see this supported because there is currently no way to profile azure functions

We are currently working on it and even have a working prototype. We are going to release Azure profiling in 2021.1 version of dotTrace (~ April 2021, also will be available in EAP builds).

Great news :) 

Hi Konstantin,

what is the current status about Azure profiling? Will dotTrace 2021.1 or 2021.2 do the job?
Do we need to consider something?

Warm regards,
Nils

Unfortunately, this feature is postponed. It is still in our plans, but I can't say for sure when it will be available.

Hi!
Is there any news on the status of Azure profiling?
Thanks!

Anna Guseva Do you have any news about Azure profiling?