add event log events for correlation

src/Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.AspNetCore/DiagnosticListeners/Implementation/HostingDiagnosticListener.cs

@@ -207,12 +207,14 @@
                         InjectionGuardConstants.TraceParentHeaderMaxLength);
                     originalParentId = parentTraceParent;
                     traceParentPresent = true;
+                    AspNetCoreEventSource.Instance.HostingListenerInformational("2", "Retrieved trace parent from headers.");
                 }
 
                 // Scenario #1. No incoming correlation headers.
                 if (originalParentId == null)
                 {
                     // Nothing to do here.
+                    AspNetCoreEventSource.Instance.HostingListenerInformational("2", "OriginalParentId is null.");
                 }
                 else if (traceParentPresent)
                 {
@@ -220,6 +222,7 @@
                     // We need to ignore the Activity created by Hosting, as it did not take W3CTraceParent into consideration.
                     newActivity = new Activity(ActivityCreatedByHostingDiagnosticListener);
                     newActivity.SetParentId(originalParentId);
+                    AspNetCoreEventSource.Instance.HostingListenerInformational("2", "Ignoring original Activity from Hosting to create new one using traceparent header retrieved by sdk.");
 
                     // read and populate tracestate
                     ReadTraceState(httpContext.Request.Headers, newActivity);
@@ -238,6 +241,7 @@
                         {
                             newActivity = new Activity(ActivityCreatedByHostingDiagnosticListener);
                             newActivity.SetParentId(ActivityTraceId.CreateFromString(traceId), default(ActivitySpanId), ActivityTraceFlags.None);
+                            AspNetCoreEventSource.Instance.HostingListenerInformational("2", "Ignoring original Activity from Hosting to create new one using w3c compatible request-id.");
 
                             foreach (var bag in currentActivity.Baggage)
                             {
@@ -248,6 +252,7 @@
                         {
                             // store rootIdFromOriginalParentId in custom Property
                             legacyRootId = ExtractOperationIdFromRequestId(originalParentId);
+                            AspNetCoreEventSource.Instance.HostingListenerInformational("2", "Incoming Request-ID is not W3C Compatible, and hence will be ignored for ID generation, but stored in custom property legacy_rootID.");
                         }
                     }
                 }
@@ -581,6 +586,8 @@
                         activity.AddBaggage(itemName, itemValue);
                     }
                 }
+
+                AspNetCoreEventSource.Instance.HostingListenerVerboe("Correlation-Context retrived from header and stored into activity baggage.");
             }
         }
 
@@ -593,6 +600,7 @@
                 // make in the request context can continue propogation
                 // of tracestate.
                 activity.TraceStateString = traceState;
+                AspNetCoreEventSource.Instance.HostingListenerVerboe("TraceState retrived from header and stored into activity.TraceState");
             }
         }
 
@@ -673,11 +681,13 @@
                 var traceId = activity.TraceId.ToHexString();
                 requestTelemetry.Id = FormatTelemetryId(traceId, activity.SpanId.ToHexString());
                 requestTelemetry.Context.Operation.Id = traceId;
+                AspNetCoreEventSource.Instance.RequestTelemetryCreated("W3C", requestTelemetry.Id, traceId);
             }
             else
             {
                 requestTelemetry.Context.Operation.Id = activity.RootId;
                 requestTelemetry.Id = activity.Id;
+                AspNetCoreEventSource.Instance.RequestTelemetryCreated("Hierrarchical", requestTelemetry.Id, requestTelemetry.Context.Operation.Id);
             }
 
             if (this.proactiveSamplingEnabled

src/Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.AspNetCore/Extensibility/Implementation/Tracing/AspNetCoreEventSource.cs

@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.AspNetCore.Extensibility.Implementation.
         {
             this.WriteEvent(17, errorMessage, this.ApplicationName);
         }
-
+        
         /// <summary>
         /// Logs an event when a telemetry item is sampled out at head.
         /// </summary>
@@ -207,6 +207,42 @@ namespace Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.AspNetCore.Extensibility.Implementation.
             this.WriteEvent(18, operationId, this.ApplicationName);
         }
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Logs an informational event from Hosting listeners.
+        /// </summary>
+        [Event(
+            19,
+            Message = "Hosting Major Version: '{0}'. Informational Message: '{1}'.",
+            Level = EventLevel.Informational)]
+        public void HostingListenerInformational(string hostingVersion, string message, string appDomainName = "Incorrect")
+        {
+            this.WriteEvent(19, hostingVersion, message, this.ApplicationName);
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Logs a verbose event.
+        /// </summary>
+        [Event(
+            20,
+            Message = "Message: '{0}'.",
+            Level = EventLevel.Verbose)]
+        public void HostingListenerVerboe(string message, string appDomainName = "Incorrect")
+        {
+            this.WriteEvent(20, message, this.ApplicationName);
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Logs an event for RequestTelemetry created.
+        /// </summary>
+        [Event(
+            21,
+            Message = "RequestTelemetry created. CorrelationFormat: '{0}', RequestID: '{1}', OperationId : '{2}' ",
+            Level = EventLevel.Informational)]
+        public void RequestTelemetryCreated(string correlationFormat, string requestId, string requestOperationId, string appDomainName = "Incorrect")
+        {
+            this.WriteEvent(21, correlationFormat, requestId, requestOperationId, this.ApplicationName);
+        }
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Keywords for the AspNetEventSource.
         /// </summary>

src/Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.AspNetCore/Extensions/RequestCollectionOptions.cs

@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@
     public class RequestCollectionOptions
     {
         /// <summary>
-        /// Creates new instance of <see cref="RequestCollectionOptions"/> class and fills default values.
+        /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="RequestCollectionOptions"/> class
+        /// and populates default values.
         /// </summary>
         public RequestCollectionOptions()
         {
@@ -23,17 +24,19 @@
         }
 
         /// <summary>
-        /// Get or sets value indicating whether Request-Context header is injected into the response.
+        /// Gets or sets a value indicating whether Request-Context header is injected into the response.
         /// </summary>
         public bool InjectResponseHeaders { get; set; }
 
         /// <summary>
-        /// Get or sets value indicating whether exceptions are be tracked.
+        /// Gets or sets a value indicating whether exceptions are be tracked by the RequestCOllectionModule.
+        /// Exceptions could be tracked by ApplicationInsightsLoggerProvider as well which is not affected by
+        /// this setting.
         /// </summary>
         public bool TrackExceptions { get; set; }
 
         /// <summary>
-        /// Get or sets value indicating whether W3C distributed tracing standard is enabled.
+        /// Gets or sets a value indicating whether W3C distributed tracing standard is enabled.
         /// </summary>
         public bool EnableW3CDistributedTracing { get; set; }
     }

src/Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.AspNetCore/RequestTrackingTelemetryModule.cs

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.AspNetCore
         /// <summary>
         /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="RequestTrackingTelemetryModule"/> class.
         /// </summary>
-        public RequestTrackingTelemetryModule() 
+        public RequestTrackingTelemetryModule()
             : this(null)
         {
             this.CollectionOptions = new RequestCollectionOptions();