# Dotnet core WPF application - how to get APM traces **URL:** \ **Category:** APM\ **Tags:** dotnet, language-clients\ **Created:** [September 23, 2022, 3:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dotnet-core-wpf-application-how-to-get-apm-traces/315035 "2022-09-23T15:51:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SaEd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@SaEd](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SaEd)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2022, 3:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dotnet-core-wpf-application-how-to-get-apm-traces/315035/1 "2022-09-23T15:51:42Z")
Hello all, I have a .net core WPF application (_not_ [asp.net](http://asp.net) core). I'm also using Serilog for logging. From Elastic Stack: Fleet with integrations: APM 8.4.2, Custom Log 1.0.0, System 1.16.2 Also using Elastic-agent 8.4 running on my laptop I can't seem to get APM trace ids in my logs. Is this possible for a _none_ [asp.net](http://asp.net) application? My setup looks like this ```auto private IHostBuilder CreateHostBuilder() { return Host.CreateDefaultBuilder() .UseAllElasticApm() .ConfigureServices((hostContext, services) => { //Add you business services services.AddLogging(loggingBuilder => loggingBuilder .AddSerilog(dispose: true) .AddConsole()); services.AddScoped(); services.AddScoped(); }); } ``` And logger setup ```auto Log.Logger = new LoggerConfiguration() .MinimumLevel.ControlledBy(levelSwitch) .MinimumLevel.Override("Microsoft.NetCore", LogEventLevel.Warning) .MinimumLevel.Override("Elastic.Apm", LogEventLevel.Warning) .Enrich.FromLogContext() .Enrich.WithElasticApmCorrelationInfo() .WriteTo.Console(outputTemplate: "[{ElasticApmTraceId} {ElasticApmTransactionId} {Message:lj} {NewLine}{Exception}") .Enrich.WithExceptionDetails(new DestructuringOptionsBuilder() .WithDefaultDestructurers()) .WriteTo.File(new ElasticsearchJsonFormatter(), $"C:\\Temp\\ES\\logES.json", LogEventLevel.Information, fileSizeLimitBytes: 100000, null, false, false, null, RollingInterval.Hour) .CreateLogger(); ``` Thank you ---
**Author:** ![Wolfgang\_Ziegler](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wolfgang_ziegler/32/109929_2.png) [@Wolfgang\_Ziegler](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Wolfgang_Ziegler)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2022, 8:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dotnet-core-wpf-application-how-to-get-apm-traces/315035/2 "2022-09-26T08:21:39Z")
Hi @SaEd, may I ask you to elaborate on your use case and provide me with additional information, please? - Are you using the agent's `Tracer` API (see [here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/apm/agent/dotnet/current/public-api.html#api-tracer-api)) for creating transactions in your WPF application? - Or are you using technologies (e.g. HTTP Client, MongoDB) that you expect to be monitored out-of-the-box? - Which Elastic NuGet packages are you using in your application? - Do see your WPF application show up at all on your APM server or is this problem only about logging enrichment? Thanks, Wolfgang ---
**Author:** ![SaEd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@SaEd](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SaEd)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2022, 4:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dotnet-core-wpf-application-how-to-get-apm-traces/315035/3 "2022-09-26T16:14:37Z")
Hi @Wolfgang_Ziegler , I would like to use Serilog to capture my code instrumentation. Something similar to ```auto _log.Information("{objectName} {TimeTaken} {Measuring} {Count} {SPROC}", "SomeUtil", sw.ElapsedMilliseconds, "MyMethod", myList.Count.ToString(), MY_SPROC); ``` This shows up in Elastic Search but not in APM. I'm using the Tracer API in my top-level method as in ```auto Elastic.Apm.Agent.Tracer .CaptureTransaction("Top Level Thread", ApiConstants.TypeRequest, (t) => { someUtil.MyMethod(); _log.Information("{className} {TimeTaken} {Measuring}", GetType().Name, sw.ElapsedMilliseconds, "someUtil.MyMethod"); }); ``` This one shows up in APM logs and it has the Trace Id populated. But, all other log statements in my "someUtil.MyMethod()" call do not. I was expecting everything within the same transaction to be logged to APM? Elastic.Apm.NetCoreAll: 1.17.0 Elastic.Apm: 1.17.0 Elastic.Apm.Extensions.Logging: 1.17.0 Elastic.Apm.SqlClient: 1.17.0 Elastic.Apm.SerilogEnricher: 1.5.3 Elastic.CommonSchema.Serilog: 1.5.3 Serilog.Formatting.Elasticsearch: 8.4.1 ---
**Author:** ![Wolfgang\_Ziegler](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wolfgang_ziegler/32/109929_2.png) [@Wolfgang\_Ziegler](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Wolfgang_Ziegler)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2022, 12:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dotnet-core-wpf-application-how-to-get-apm-traces/315035/4 "2022-09-27T12:27:14Z")
Hi @SaEd, I tried to reproduce your problem but unfortunately to no avail. Are you using the same `ILogger` object in `someUtil.MyMethod` as directly in the `CaptureTransaction` lambda? Could you try (just for testing) passing the `_log` object as an argument to `someUtil.MyMethod` and see if the logs show up then if you use this one? Another sanity check would be to print the values of: - `Agent.Tracer.CurrentTransaction.Id` - `Agent.Tracer.CurrentTransaction.TraceId` in all locations where you write logs and expect correlations with APM transactions. If `CurrentTransaction` is not `null` then those logs must be enriched. ---
**Author:** ![SaEd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@SaEd](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SaEd)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2022, 8:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dotnet-core-wpf-application-how-to-get-apm-traces/315035/5 "2022-09-29T20:17:53Z")
Thanks @Wolfgang_Ziegler , all the above is correct and available. Somehow everything started to work yesterday. I'm not sure what changed. The logging statement in question is in a sperate dll, so I included a few NuGet packages to the project and that's when I noticed it to work. But, then I removed them all, did a clean build but it is still working fine. I'm puzzled? ---
**Author:** ![Wolfgang\_Ziegler](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wolfgang_ziegler/32/109929_2.png) [@Wolfgang\_Ziegler](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Wolfgang_Ziegler)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2022, 5:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dotnet-core-wpf-application-how-to-get-apm-traces/315035/6 "2022-09-30T05:44:49Z")
Thanks for the update @SaEd, since we cannot reproduce the issue anymore, I will close this question. Feel free to reach out again, in case the problem shows up again. Cheers, Wolfgang ---
**Author:** ![Wolfgang\_Ziegler](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wolfgang_ziegler/32/109929_2.png) [@Wolfgang\_Ziegler](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Wolfgang_Ziegler)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2022, 5:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dotnet-core-wpf-application-how-to-get-apm-traces/315035/7 "2022-09-30T05:46:00Z")