When I debug locally I have a nice console output that shows my trace logs.  When I deploy my service where can I find my trace logs?  I'm working from scratch and learning as I go.  

My setup is a Cloud Service Worker Role.  I did try to add a storage account by following the walkthrough here.  However, simply put, this walkthrough doesn't work for me and I don't think it addresses my question for trace logging either.

Any help is greatly appreciated for this issue.

Hi,

 Have you gone through the below article on how to Enable Diagnostics in Cloud Service projects.
 https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn186185.aspx
 
 You may also want to look into the below article on how to capture custom logs from azure worker roles (3rd Party site)
 http://www.modhul.com/2014/10/capturing-custom-logs-from-azure-worker-roles-using-azure-diagnostics/

Regards,
Nithin Rathnakar

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Hi,

To take a look at (Windows Azure Diagnostics) which will allow you to collect diagnostics data (trace logs, event logs, perf. counters etc.) for your worker role. Depending on the configuration, this diagnostics data can be persisted into Windows Azure Table storage. You can view the diagnostics data using any storage explorer.

Refer :https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ff714589.aspx

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn482131.aspx

Thanks

Abhishek

I'm sorry but all 3 links you offered are old and use deprecated technology which is no longer supported.  I still need a straight forward solution to this.

I cannot access the 2nd link from my work computer - it is blocked here.  The first link has the same problem I keep running into, when following the links in it for "How To" do things it cycles back to the deprecated Diagnostics class.

Does Microsoft have no alternative way in place for logging with a tutorial on using it?  I don't understand why they remove things but not the documentation and provide new documentation to support the new methodologies.

I'm confused about logging this is all new to me and the lack of proper and useful documentation is frustrating.

have a look at the steps outline in this link

Thank you for the link.  I see this has just been updated in the last couple of days, that is good.  I am working through it now, but Step 5 has me stumped.  How do I run the whole text as a script against my powershell?  I tried editing the text and pasting it into my powershell but i only get a bunch of errors.  

Step 5: Install Diagnostics on your Worker Role

The PowerShell cmdlets for managing Diagnostics on a web or worker role are: Set-AzureServiceDiagnosticsExtension, Get-AzureServiceDiagnosticsExtension, and Remove-AzureServiceDiagnosticsExtension.

1. Open Azure PowerShell.

2. Execute the script to install Diagnostics on your worker role (replace StorageAccountKey with the storage account key for your wadexample storage account):

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   $storage_name = "wadexample"
   $key = "<StorageAccountKey>"
   $config_path="c:\users\<user>\documents\visual studio 2013\Projects\WadExample\WorkerRole1\WadExample.xml"
   $service_name="wadexample"
   $storageContext = New-AzureStorageContext -StorageAccountName $storage_name -StorageAccountKey $key 
   Set-AzureServiceDiagnosticsExtension -StorageContext $storageContext -DiagnosticsConfigurationPath $config_path -ServiceName $service_name -Slot Staging -Role WorkerRole1

Hi,

 Can you post the error your are receiving in powershell, Preferably with a screenshot attached.
 I think you need to launch Powershell ISE (Integrated Scripting Environment) so that you can run multiple lines of code. right click Powershell icon in the taskbar, and the menu that pops up, select Powershell ISE  (PS: ignore if you are already running in ISE)

Regards,
Nithin Rathnakar

Hi,

 Can you post the error your are receiving in powershell, Preferably with a screenshot attached.
 I think you need to launch Powershell ISE (Integrated Scripting Environment) so that you can run multiple lines of code. right click Powershell icon in the taskbar, and the menu that pops up, select Powershell ISE  (PS: ignore if you are already running in ISE)

Regards,
Nithin Rathnakar

• Marked as answer by Nithin.RathnakarMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator 19 hours 6 minutes ago

Great help, that is what I was missing with the power shell.  I will try to finish the walkthrough now.

As an aside, the Azure SDK 2.7 WorkerRole template project comes wired up with a trace listener that uses DiagnosticMonitorTraceListener which according to documentation has been deprecated since version 2.5.

In the meantime I used this tutorial to create a custom table and log entry, for anyone who comes to this thread in the future it may be useful.

Great help, that is what I was missing with the power shell.  I will try to finish the walkthrough now.

As an aside, the Azure SDK 2.7 WorkerRole template project comes wired up with a trace listener that uses DiagnosticMonitorTraceListener which according to documentation has been deprecated since version 2.5.

In the meantime I used this tutorial to create a custom table and log entry, for anyone who comes to this thread in the future it may be useful.

• Marked as answer by Nithin.RathnakarMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator 19 hours 6 minutes ago