The configuration of the Metrics.NET library can be done using the Config property of the static Metric class.

Global context name

The root context of an indicator in a process can be configured (in descending order of priority):

1. Set global variable: Metrics.GlobalContextName
2. Set App Settings keyword "Metrics.GlobalContextName"
3. If the following is not set, the default is "MachineName.ProcessName"

The global context name can contain the following variable placeholders:

• $Env.MachineName $will be replaced with the machine name
• $Env.ProcessName $will be replaced by the process name
• $Env.AppDomainAppVirtualPath $will be replaced with the virtual path of the app
• $Env. $is replaced with the corresponding value in the environment variable

Sample configuration

Metric.Config

    .WithHttpEndpoint("http://localhost:1234/metrics/")

    .WithAllCounters()

    .WithInternalMetrics()

    .WithReporting(config => config

       .WithConsoleReport(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(30))

        .WithCSVReports(@"c:\temp\reports\",TimeSpan.FromMinutes(30))

        .WithTextFileReport(@"C:\temp\reports\metrics.txt",TimeSpan.FromHours(1))

    );

App.Config configuration

The following configuration items can be put into app.config (or web.config) to control the Metrics.NET class library:

<!-- Completely disable all metrics -->
<add key="Metrics.CompletelyDisableMetrics" value="true"/>

<!-- Equivalent of calling Metric.Config.WithHttpEndpoint("http://localhost:1234/") -->
<add key="Metrics.HttpListener.HttpUriPrefix" value="http://localhost:1234/"/>

<!-- Equivalent of calling 
Metric.Config.WithReporting(config => 
config.WithCSVReports(@"..\MetricsCSV\", TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10))
-->
<add key="Metrics.CSV.Path" value="..\MetricsCSV\"/>
<add key="Metrics.CSV.Interval.Seconds" value="10"/>

<!-- Specify how many times a scheduled reporter can consecutively fail to push data.
-1  : unlimited
0   : reporter stops trying to send data once an attempt to push fails (default)
x>0 : reporter tolerates x consecutive failures. If the number of failures is greater than x, the reporter stops.
Regardless of setting, each failure is handled by the MetricsErrorHandler.
-->
<add key="Metrics.Reports.ToleratedConsecutiveFailures" value="3"/>