Can I enable tracing in OWIN?

asp.net-mvc, owin, trace

Solution

Not 100% sure that this will solve your issue, but we got it working with following config. Slight difference in the following line:

<source name="Microsoft.Owin" switchName="Microsoft.Owin" switchType="System.Diagnostics.SourceSwitch">

Notice that the `<source>` tag includes a `switchName` (and `switchType`) attribute which is missing from your example. I think that this instruction links the TraceSource with the Switch and makes the entire work.

In our case, we use trace listeners for Azure Web sites (and web jobs).

 <system.diagnostics>
    <sharedListeners>
      <add name="AzureTableTraceListener" type="Microsoft.WindowsAzure.WebSites.Diagnostics.AzureTableTraceListener, Microsoft.WindowsAzure.WebSites.Diagnostics, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
      <add name="AzureBlobTraceListener" type="Microsoft.WindowsAzure.WebSites.Diagnostics.AzureBlobTraceListener, Microsoft.WindowsAzure.WebSites.Diagnostics, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
      <add name="AzureDriveTraceListener" type="Microsoft.WindowsAzure.WebSites.Diagnostics.AzureDriveTraceListener, Microsoft.WindowsAzure.WebSites.Diagnostics, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
    </sharedListeners>
    <sources>
      <source name="Microsoft.Owin" switchName="Microsoft.Owin" switchType="System.Diagnostics.SourceSwitch">
        <listeners>
          <add name="AzureTableTraceListener"/>
          <add name="AzureDriveTraceListener"/>
        </listeners>
      </source>
    </sources>
    <switches>
      <add name="Microsoft.Owin" value="All" />
    </switches>
    <trace autoflush="true" indentsize="4" />
  </system.diagnostics>

Problem

I have an environmental problem somewhere in OWIN and I want to get some information about what is happening. I have read that I can enable tracing but can't find much information on how to do it. I have added the following to my web.config but no joy. Is this possible? ``` <!-- 1. Enable the switch here. Without this, you get nothing. By default, Katana has "new SourceSwitch("Microsoft.Owin")" at the root level. --> <switches> <add name="Microsoft.Owin" value="Verbose" /> </switches> <!-- 2. Add your shared listeners. --> <trace autoflush="true" /> <sharedListeners> <add name="file" type="System.Diagnostics.TextWriterTraceListener" initializeData="C:\traces\Microsoft.OWIN.trace.log" /> <add name="console" type="System.Diagnostics.ConsoleTraceListener" /> </sharedListeners> <sources> <!-- "Microsoft.Owin" is the SourceSwitch name katana is using at the rootlevel. By enabling this, we are enabling all sub level traces by the components (if we don't change the default trace settings). --> <source name="Microsoft.Owin"> <listeners> <add name="file" /> <add name="console" /> </listeners> </source> </sources> ```

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