Customize the Lightrun .NET agent¶

According to the Lightrun actions you specify, the agent dynamically inserts logs and snapshots in the target environment. The agent's behavior when performing these tasks is governed by a set of user-configurable properties.

Agent properties¶

You can specify the agent properties within your code, by using environment variables, or using an agent.config file.

Specifying agent properties within the code¶

You can specify your agent configuration parameters by entering the parameters in the LightrunAgent.Start command.

For example,

LightrunAgent.Start(new AgentOptions {
    Secret = "<LIGHTRUN_SECRET>",
    PropertyName1 = "value" ,
    PropertyName2 = "value",
});

Specifying agent properties using environment variables¶

An alternative method for configuring agent properties is to enter them as environment variables. This can be done by adding a LIGHTRUN_ prefix to the configuration parameter. For example, to set the Lightrun secret key and server url in a .env file, we would use something similar to the following:

//.env file

LIGHTRUN_SECRET=<lightrun_secret_key>
LIGHTRUN_SERVERURL=<lightrun_server_url>

Specifying agent properties using an agent.config file¶

You can also specify the agent properties using an agent.config file. Add the path to the agent.config file in your LightrunAgent.Start command using the AgentConfigFile parameter as shown in the example below.

LightrunAgent.Start(new AgentOptions {
   AgentConfigFile: '<PATH-TO-CONFIG>'
});

Order of precedence¶

When an application is run with a Lightrun agent, properties are defined in the following order of precedence:

1. Start method parameter
2. Environment variables
3. agent.config file

Configuration parameters¶

The following table lists the configuration parameters that can be set in the agent.config file, environment variables, or the LightrunAgent.Start command.

HTTP-Proxy configuration¶

ProxyServer property allows to configure an HTTP proxy server for the agent traffic.

Host and Port are mandatory settings, and should be provided together.

The proxy server should support CONNECT method.

Also the proxy server configuration can be provided with corresponding environment variables:

• LIGHTRUN_PROXY_HOST
• LIGHTRUN_PROXY_PORT
• LIGHTRUN_PROXY_USERNAME
• LIGHTRUN_PROXY_PASSWORD

or agent.config parameters:

proxy_host=
proxy_port=
proxy_username=
proxy_password=

Impact of Release mode optimizations on .NET snapshot results¶

Variables displayed in .NET snapshot results may differ between .NET Debug and Release modes due to optimizations applied in Release mode. In Release mode, certain variables may be unavailable, as the code is more optimized for performance, resulting in faster execution and smaller output. However, this optimization can remove or rearrange source code statements, which can make debugging more challenging.