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Capturing dotnet trace for app service

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Meghali
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May 19, 2022
Recently I was involved in troubleshooting a bot case where a system.net call from the bot was failing. We wanted to grab dotnet-traces as that gives us best information from system.net perspective. ...
Updated May 19, 2022
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michaelelleby123
Copper Contributor
Oct 11, 2022

Running a Function App hosted inside an App Service Environment, I am unable to install the dotnet-trace tool:

C:\home>dotnet tool install --global dotnet-trace
System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Attempted to perform an unauthorized operation.
   at Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey.Win32Error(Int32 errorCode, String str)
   at Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey.SetValueCore(String name, Object value, RegistryValueKind valu
eKind)
   at Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey.SetValue(String name, Object value, RegistryValueKind valueKind)
   at Microsoft.DotNet.Cli.Utils.WindowsRegistryEnvironmentPathEditor.Set(String value, SdkEnvironmentVariableTarget sdkEnvironmentVariableTarget)
   at Microsoft.DotNet.ShellShim.WindowsEnvironmentPath.AddPackageExecutablePathToUserPath()
   at Microsoft.DotNet.Configurer.DotnetFirstTimeUseConfigurer.Configure()
   at Microsoft.DotNet.Cli.Program.ConfigureDotNetForFirstTimeUse(IFirstTimeUseNoticeSentinel firstTimeUseNoticeSentinel, IAspNetCertificateSentinel aspNetCertificateSentinel, IFileSentinel toolPathSentinel, Boolean isDotnetBeingInvokedFromNativeInstaller, DotnetFirstRunConfiguration dotnetFirstRunConfiguration, IEnvironmentProvider environmentProvider, Dictionary`2 performanceMeasurements)
   at Microsoft.DotNet.Cli.Program.ProcessArgs(String[] args, TimeSpan startupTime, ITelemetry telemetryClient)
   at Microsoft.DotNet.Cli.Program.Main(String[] args)