Using Semantic Logging out of Proc, want to log current Deployment Id and Role Id in SLABLogsTable as it does itself in WADWindowsEventLogsTable.

Question

In our application, we are implementing SLAB Out of Proc. I want to log current Deployment Id and Role Id in SLABLogsTable as it does itself in WADWindowsEventLogsTable. 
I can do this by adding custom parameters in payload but then I need to pass them in each and every event raised.
But in WADWindowsEventLogsTable, deployement Id , Role , Role Instance are logged on its own.
How do I get those for event raised by my application.

Answer 1

Hi,
Per my understanding, if you want to leverage the automatic DeploymentId and Role data logging for WADWindowsEventLogsTable, you could try something like:
Trace.TraceError("Messages");
EventLog.WriteEntry("MySource","Messages",EventLogEntryType.Error);
Which mentioned in
http://weblogs.asp.net/jdanforth/how-to-do-custom-event-logging-and-trace-writing-in-azure. If you mean you don't want to repeat coding the implementation to achieve/pass the DeploymentId and Role data every time you call
this.WriteEvent(101, txt, deploymentId, roleId); from my experience since deployment ID and role data are constant, you can write a helper method:
WriteEventHelper(int code, string text)
    // You can also get the value of DeploymentId/Role via
RoleEnvironment Properties
    this.WriteEvent(code, text, deploymentId, roleId);
then whenever you want to write logs, you call this helper method intead of calling WriteEvent directly.
Best Regards,
Ming Xu
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