Getting Started
Architecture
NServiceBus
Transports
Persistence
ServiceInsight
ServicePulse
ServiceControl
Samples

Consume raw data from Metrics

Component: Metrics
NuGet Package: NServiceBus.Metrics (3.x)
Target Version: NServiceBus 7.x

When Performance Counters reporting and ServiceControl reporting are not enough, it's possible to consume raw metrics data by directly attaching them to the public API provided by the package. First, the Metrics themselves need to be enabled. Then, a custom reporter can be attached to send data to any collector e.g. Service Control, Azure Application Insights, etc.

Enabling NServiceBus.Metrics

var metrics = endpointConfiguration.EnableMetrics();

Reporting metrics data

Metrics can be reported in a few different ways.

To any external storage

Custom observers might be registered to access every value reported by probes.

var durationsLog = LogManager.GetLogger("Durations");
var signalsLog = LogManager.GetLogger("Signals");

metrics.RegisterObservers(
    register: context =>
    {
        foreach (var duration in context.Durations)
        {
            duration.Register(
                observer: (ref DurationEvent @event) =>
                {
                    durationsLog.DebugFormat("{0} = {1}", duration.Name, @event.Duration);
                });
        }
        foreach (var signal in context.Signals)
        {
            signal.Register(
                observer: (ref SignalEvent @event) =>
                {
                    signalsLog.DebugFormat("{0} = {1}", signal.Name, @event.MessageType);
                });
        }
    });

Samples

Related Articles