Azure SDK 2.9 diagnostics exceptions

Question

I created a blank solution with a single Azure Worker Role. I enabled performance monitoring and diagnostics using the default settings.

When I run the app (which runs successfully) I try to look in the local development Azure Storage tables for the WADPerformanceCountersTable but cannot find it.

I see the following event in the event log:

Microsoft.Cis.Monitoring.Query.QueryException: ErrorFail
   at Microsoft.Cis.Monitoring.Query.QueryLocalTable..ctor(String TableName, String TablePath)
   at ApplicationInsightsExtension.MATableReader.ReadTableRecords(String tableName, String tablePath, DateTime startTime, DateTime endTime)
   at Microsoft.Azure.Plugins.Diagnostics.dll.MAStatusWriter.UpdateStatusReport(Object sender, ElapsedEventArgs e)

Local machine setup:

1. Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition
2. Azure SDK 2.9
3. Windows 10
4. Running Visual Studio as Administrator
5. Worker Role definition has elevated privileges

More links:

• Example project in Github
• Example error message in Github project

Answer 1

I have removed every nuget related with ApplicationInsights in my WebRole, every table with old data and now I have IIS Logs and Performance Logs.

Give it a try and see if it works for you

Answer 2

I found that simply removing the <system.diagnostics> element entirely from the web role's configuration file, meant that instead of getting the diagnostics initialisation error in the event log you get the actual error that Azure diagnostics was trying to log. Which is what I was looking for.