"Profile now" from portal should work for dockerized applications about applicationinsights-profiler-aspnetcore HOT 7 CLOSED

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@bremnes Thanks for the asking. It is an interesting question.
There are at least 2 benefits for Profile Now:

1. One can start the profiling at the time on demand;
2. One can align the profiling across multiple services at the same time;

Could you please tell me which one do you think will benefit you more at this stage?

The reason I ask is that it might take a while before we can implement Profile Now. However, there might be something that we can reach easliy without Profile Now.

For example, if you want to align the profiling across multiple services, one simple solution could be:

• Allow sets app settings / config / environment to pick a start time. Once the start time is aligned across the services, the profiling will always be aligned.

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@xiaomi7732, both to be honest. Ideally one should be able to profile one/several/all connected services/applications regardless of them running in Kubernetes, Azure or on a VM in your own data center.

From the documentation on app insights profiler it says that it will trigger profiler on all instances of the linked web apps. It might be that web app in this context is limited to Azure app/web app, but I'd hope not.

For your comment regarding picking a start time, is there any way to easily control that? I've noticed that profiling by default happens in the two first minutes of the process start and then every hour (58 minute) after that. If we can control that, it would be great as well. For instance it's not perfect if a node fails in Kubernetes, and then all the pods who are rescheduled to another server all starts profiling simultaneously. That could break/have impact on the next node as well.

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One year later do we have any progress on this?

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@andtii Thanks for your ask. Do I understand correct by this, you mean the Profile Now? By current timeline that I have, it will take about one month for a new version to roll-out with the capability. I'll update the date when I have anything concrete.

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@xiaomi7732 Nicee that sounds awesome

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@andtii Please checkout the new release of 2.0.0-beta1.
The documentation will catch up later. For now, please take a look at the doc in this fork:
https://github.com/xiaomi7732/ApplicationInsights-Profiler-AspNetCore/tree/dev/saars/update-profiler-2.0/examples/QuickStart3_0

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