It should be possible to completely disable tracing on the host

[lmolkova]

See Azure/azure-functions-dotnet-worker#2733 for the context.

I'd like to be able to disable tracing on function host and trace everything on the worker to reduce number of spans I might not care about.

What I tried:

• removing telemetryMode from host.json and then no traces are exported, but the parent span is still generated.
• disabling ASP.NET Core activity auto-creation (Disable Diagnostics and Activity dotnet/aspnetcore#18955) - the same

my config looks like this:

{
  "version": "2.0",
  "logging": {
    "LogLevel": {
      "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.Diagnostics": "None"
    },
    "EventLog": {
      "LogLevel": {
        "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.Diagnostics": "None"
      }
    }
  }
}

What I see

I get the following telemetry for it with https://github.com/lmolkova/testfuncotel/tree/aspnetcoreint

I.e. two activities - from worker ASP.NET Core and custom one in the function.
Both of these activities have a parent (but different parents) which came from host.

Also related to Azure/azure-functions-dotnet-worker#2875

What I expect

When I don't provide telemetryMode, don't have APPLICATIONINSIGHTS_CONNECTION_STRING and also explicitly disable ASP.NET Core activity creation in absence of a listener, the host should not create any activities.

[bhagyshricompany]

Hi @lmolkova Thanks for reporting please share the all steps for repro.Thanks

[lmolkova]

/bot not-stale

@bhagyshricompany

this is a question or a feature request, rather than a bug. Repro app is available in the https://github.com/lmolkova/testfuncotel/tree/aspnetcoreint and the question is:

• is there a way to disable tracing on the host completely?
• If so - how? I tried something listed above and it didn't work.
• if it's not possible then treat it as a feature request

[microsoft-github-policy-service]

Thank you lmolkova. This issue will not be automatically closed and a member of the team will review it soon.