OneAgent log automatic enrichment being prefixed

[rafaelpadovezi]

Hey, I'm trying to send logs to Dynatrace using this Sink and stumbled in this behavior. My OneAgent is configured to automatic enrich the app logs. The result is that the log event is showing in Dynatrace with the attr prefix to the field:

attr.dt.entity.process_group_instance: PROCESS_GROUP_INSTANCE-SOME_INSTANCE

This way Dynatrace is not relating the logs with the application. Could this property be a ROOT_PROPERTY? https://github.com/iojancode/Serilog.Sinks.Dynatrace/blob/69d22fdc38d612a710c47380d21764a07ca97945/DynatraceTextFormatter.cs#L14

Or maybe anything that starts with dt. should not have the prefix. Do you think it makes sense?

[iojancode]

Hi, you can avoid this behavior changing the default value for propertiesPrefix = "" at the Dynatrace method extension. Example:

var log = new LoggerConfiguration()
    .WriteTo.Dynatrace(
        accessToken: "xxx.yyyyyy.zzzzz",
        ingestUrl: "https://{your-environment-id}.live.dynatrace.com/api/v2/logs/ingest",
        propertiesPrefix: "")
    .CreateLogger();

[rafaelpadovezi]

Thanks @iojancode. I would like to add a prefix to the other properties but it's not required. I will follow this recommendation

[iojancode]

i will leave this one tagged as question for other users

[weidingerhp]

Added a PR that should make that work out of the box.