How to add custom dimensions to a trace

[martijnburgers]

I am running a Java Quarkus application with applicationinsights-agent-3.1.1.jar .

The applications logs in json format

{"timestamp":"2021-06-26T20:50:58.833+02:00","sequence":1440,"loggerClassName":"org.jboss.logging.Logger","loggerName":"io.quarkus","level":"INFO","message":"someservice.service 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT on JVM (powered by Quarkus 1.13.7.Final) started in 8.270s. Listening on: http://localhost:8080","threadName":"Quarkus Main Thread","threadId":95,"hostName":"someHostName","processName":"someservice.service-dev.jar","processId":91912}
{"timestamp":"2021-06-26T20:50:58.844+02:00","sequence":1441,"loggerClassName":"org.jboss.logging.Logger","loggerName":"io.quarkus","level":"INFO","message":"Profile dev activated. Live Coding activated.","threadName":"Quarkus Main Thread","threadId":95,"hostName":"someHostName","processName":"someservice.service-dev.jar","processId":91912}
{"timestamp":"2021-06-26T20:50:58.844+02:00","sequence":1442,"loggerClassName":"org.jboss.logging.Logger","loggerName":"io.quarkus","level":"INFO","message":"Installed features: [cdi, mutiny, quarkiverse-logging-json, resteasy, resteasy-jackson, resteasy-jaxb, resteasy-multipart, resteasy-mutiny, smallrye-context-propagation, smallrye-openapi, swagger-ui]","threadName":"Quarkus Main Thread","threadId":95,"hostName":"someHostName","processName":"someservice.service-dev.jar","processId":91912}
{"timestamp":"2021-06-26T20:56:09.483+02:00","sequence":1446,"loggerClassName":"org.slf4j.impl.Slf4jLogger","loggerName":"nl.somecompany.someService.service.Service","level":"INFO","message":"rocess incoming request","threadName":"executor-thread-1","threadId":101,"ndc":"f45a16d5-6c16-4040-92a5-0b8388752823","hostName":"someHostName","processName":"someService.service-dev.jar","processId":91912,"properties":{"requestId":"f45a16d5-6c16-4040-92a5-0b8388752823","scenarioName":null}}

The last line also includes custom properties created with the following line of code:

logger.info("Process incoming request", kv("properties", context));

Application Insights shows every log line (trace) as shown above but the customDimensions never include the custom properties. It only shows:

LoggerName
nl.somecompany.someservice.service.someservice

LoggingLevel
INFO

SourceType
Logger

How can we add custom dimensions to application insights from Java logging?

[trask]

hey @martijnburgers! What logging framework are you using?

[martijnburgers]

Quarkus is using JBoss Log Manager and the JBoss Logging facade: org.jboss.logging.Logger

[trask]

hi @martijnburgers! we have added MDC support for jboss logging so that MDC key/value paris are added as custom dimensions to the trace. Here's a SNAPSHOT release if you are able to test it out:

https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/suites/7346755937/artifacts/297833967

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