Compatibility and requirements for .NET and .NET Core agents

The APM Insight agent supports both .NET and .NET core applications and includes built-in instrumentation that collects performance metrics from the applications automatically.

The compatibility and requirements for both.NET and.NET Core agents are described in the sections below.

Compatibility and requirements for the .NET agent
Compatibility and requirements for the .NET Core agent

Compatibility and requirements for the .NET agent

The .NET agent supports applications built with the Microsoft .NET framework version 4.0 or above and hosted on IIS 7.0 or above.

The APM Insight .NET agent supports the following components.

Application frameworks

Active Server Page Extended (ASPX)
Model—View—Controller (MVC)

External components

Web service calls

Active Server Method Extended (ASMX)
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Web Application Programming Interface (Web API)

Web requests

Web request
HTTP client

Database calls

Microsoft SQL Server
SQL Server CE
PostgreSQL
Enterprise Library
OLE DB
Oracle
MySQL

Memcached and NoSQL

Redis (Service Stack and Stack Exchange Provider)
Cassandra

Queue

Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ)
Rabbit MQ

Others

FILEUPLOAD
DATAUPLOAD
Open Web Interface for .NET (OWIN)

Compatibility and requirements for the .NET Core agent

The .NET Core agent supports Microsoft .NET Core application versions—2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 3.0, 3.1, 5.0, and 6.0.

Supported app servers

Kestrel
Kestrel with IIS reverse proxy via AspNetCoreModule
Kestrel with IIS reverse proxy via AspNetCoreModuleV2
In-process hosting

It supports Windows and Linux operating systems.

The APM Insight .NET Core agent supports the following components.

Application framework

External Components

Web Service Calls

Web API
Web requests
HTTP client

Database calls

Microsoft SQL Server
SQL Server CE
PostgreSQL
Enterprise Library
OLE DB
Oracle
MySQL

Memcached and NoSQL

Redis (Service Stack and Stack Exchange Provider)
Cassandra

Queue

Rabbit MQ