RequestTelemetry missing in HttpContext.Features about applicationinsights-dotnet HOT 2 OPEN

I'm seeing this as well. Works when ran locally but not when deployed an Azure app service. .NET 8, ASP.NET API wherein I have a middleware that attempts to add values to the RequestTelemetry.

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My Azure App Service is using Application Insights autoinstrumentation extension (v2.8.45.1) with interop enabled (XDT_MicrosoftApplicationInsights_PreemptSdk=1), and I wonder if that is related. Perhaps when running locally, there's no autoinstrumented instance of AI running to pre-empt the SDK, so custom telemetry still works.

It's unclear to me what SDK interop actually does; the documentation says "Loads the extension side by side with the SDK and uses it to send telemetry. (Disables the Application Insights SDK.)" which to me is ambiguous if things like writing RequestTelemetry in middleware would still work.

Something else I've found is that if I enumerate and log out httpContext.Features.AsEnumerable() in the middleware, RequestTelemetry appears as a registered feature, but any attempt to retrieve it returns null.

Update: Setting XDT_MicrosoftApplicationInsights_PreemptSdk=0 seems to have resolved it.

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