Dynatrace OpenKit - .NET Reference Implementation

What is the OpenKit?

The OpenKit provides an easy and lightweight way to get insights into applications with Dynatrace by instrumenting the source code of those applications.

It is best suited for applications running separated from their backend and communicating via HTTP, like rich-client-applications, embedded devices, terminals, and so on.

The big advantages of the OpenKit are that it's designed to

be as easy-to-use as possible
be as dependency-free as possible (no third party libraries or Dynatrace Agent needed)
be easily portable to other languages and platforms

This repository contains the reference implementation in pure .NET/C#. Other implementations are listed as follows:

Java: https://github.com/Dynatrace/openkit-java/
C/C++: https://github.com/Dynatrace/openkit-native/
JavaScript: https://github.com/Dynatrace/openkit-js/

What you can do with the OpenKit

Create Sessions and User Actions
Report values, events, errors and crashes
Trace web requests to server-side PurePaths
Tag Sessions with a user tag
Use it together with Dynatrace

What you cannot do with the OpenKit

Create server-side PurePaths (this functionality is provided by OneAgent SDKs)
Create metrics (use the Custom network devices & metrics API to report metrics)

Design Principles

API should be as simple and easy-to-understand as possible
Incorrect usage of the OpenKit should still lead to valid results, if possible
In case of errors, the API should not throw exceptions, but only log those errors (in verbose mode)
No usage of third-party libraries, should run without any dependencies
Avoid usage of newest .NET APIs, should be running on older .NET runtimes, too
Avoid usage of too much .NET-specific APIs to allow rather easy porting to other languages
Design reentrant APIs and document them

General Remarks

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