How to identify and resolve conflicts between other APM products and the APM Insight .NET agent?

How to identify and resolve conflicts between other APM products and the APM Insight .NET agent?

If you are experiencing any of the issues mentioned below and you suspect that another APM product is interfering with the Applications Manager .NET agent, you can follow the steps given in this article to troubleshoot and fix the issues:
1. The .NET monitor is not getting created even after the .NET agent installation is complete.
2. The .NET monitor is not receiving data from the application.
Note: Before you proceed to troubleshoot, ensure that the APM Insight .NET agent has been installed.
Follow the steps given below to identify and resolve the conflict between the other APM product and the APM Insight.NET agent:

Profilers that commonly conflict with Applications Manager's .NET agent

Environment variable of Applications Manager's .NET agent:
{989D151B-3F31-482E-926F-2E95D274BD36}

Other APM profilers
Profiler CLSID
AppDynamics
AppDynamics.AgentProfiler
New Relic
{71DA0A04-7777-4EC6-9643-7D28B46A8A41}
Dynatrace
{DA7CFC47-3E35-4c-4e-B495-534F93B28683}
{B7038F67-52FC-4DA2-AB02-969B3C1EDA03}
IntelliTrace
{2AA1AA98-2CAA-4FCF-86CE-EFA007737E83}
Microsoft Application Insights
{324F817A-7420-4E6D-B3C1-143FBED6D855}
SCOM APM
{AD5651A8-B5C8-46ca-A11B-E82AEC2B8E78}
JetBrains dotCover
{9AA5D52F-37E2-487D-AAEC-727478B8BDB5}

Identify the conflicting APM product using Event Viewer

  1. Open Event Viewer and navigate to Windows Logs > Application.
  2. Click the event with the source .NET Runtime to check the Profiler CLSID of the conflicting APM product.
The Event Viewer will be installed on your Windows machine by default.

Identify the conflicting APM product using Process Explorer

  1. Install and open the Process Explorer.
  2. Select w3wp.exe, go to the Environment tab, and look for the COR_PROFILER variable to identify the conflicting APM product.
    Note: Please find the link to download and install the Process Explorer in your system.

Resolve the conflict

  1. You must uninstall the other APM product because Microsoft restricts using multiple profilers on the same machine.
  2. Perform IIS reset.
  3. Now, you can restart your application and make some transactions.
  4. Once the application is up and receiving requests, you can view the monitor under APM > Your APM Insight Application/Instance in the AppManager
  5. If you click the application name, you can also view the metrics and the corresponding graphs.

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