Stratara.ServiceDefaults 4.0.3

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dotnet add package Stratara.ServiceDefaults --version 4.0.3
                    
NuGet\Install-Package Stratara.ServiceDefaults -Version 4.0.3
                    
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<PackageReference Include="Stratara.ServiceDefaults" Version="4.0.3" />
                    
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<PackageVersion Include="Stratara.ServiceDefaults" Version="4.0.3" />
                    
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<PackageReference Include="Stratara.ServiceDefaults" />
                    
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paket add Stratara.ServiceDefaults --version 4.0.3
                    
#r "nuget: Stratara.ServiceDefaults, 4.0.3"
                    
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#:package Stratara.ServiceDefaults@4.0.3
                    
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#addin nuget:?package=Stratara.ServiceDefaults&version=4.0.3
                    
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#tool nuget:?package=Stratara.ServiceDefaults&version=4.0.3
                    
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Stratara.ServiceDefaults

Derived. The behaviour described here is specified under openspec/specs/. Those specifications are the source; this page explains and illustrates them.

License: MIT.

Cross-host observability defaults for the Stratara stack. Reference from every host (API, worker) to get OpenTelemetry + Serilog wired up with sensible defaults.

What's in the box

Extension Purpose
ConfigureOpenTelemetry Logging + metrics + tracing with HTTP, EF Core, RabbitMQ, runtime instrumentation; OTLP exporter wired up automatically when OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT is set. Accepts optional MeterProviderBuilder / TracerProviderBuilder callbacks for host-specific extras.
ConfigureSerilog Structured logging with destructuring attributes, async console sink, OTLP sink (gRPC or HTTP/Protobuf based on OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_PROTOCOL), dev-mode log cleanup at {Path.GetTempPath()}/stratara-logs/{service-name}.log — the OS temp directory, so not literally /tmp on Windows or macOS.
ConfigureSerilogBootstrapLogger Sets up Log.Logger as a bootstrap logger before the host is built, so early-startup errors surface to the console.

Quick start

builder.ConfigureOpenTelemetry();
builder.ConfigureSerilog();

It deletes your development log file on start-up

In the Development environment only, configuring Serilog deletes the current log file before opening it: %TEMP%/stratara-logs/{OTEL_SERVICE_NAME}.log, where the service name falls back to Unknown when OTEL_SERVICE_NAME is unset. The intent is a clean file per debugging session rather than one that grows across dozens of restarts.

Two consequences worth knowing before they cost you an hour:

  • A crash you wanted to read is gone the moment you restart to reproduce it. Copy the file before restarting, or point the sink elsewhere for that session.
  • Two development services with no OTEL_SERVICE_NAME share Unknown.log and delete each other's. Set the variable per service.

Outside Development nothing is deleted.

Sibling packages

  • Stratara.EventSourcing.WorkerDefaults — one-stop AddBackendServices / AddXxxWorkerServices composites that wire the framework's mediator + outbox + projections + sagas stack.
  • Stratara.ServiceDefaults.AspNetCore — ASP.NET-specific extras: AddDefaultHealthChecks + MapDefaultEndpoints (/health, /alive) and ASP.NET request OTel instrumentation.

Dependencies

  • Stratara.Shared — diagnostics base (ApplicationDiagnostics.Activity.SourceName).
  • OpenTelemetry runtime + exporter packages.
  • Serilog sinks (Console, File, Async, OpenTelemetry).
  • Destructurama.Attributed for destructuring conventions.
  • Microsoft.Extensions.Http.Resilience + Microsoft.Extensions.ServiceDiscovery.

Prerelease dependencies. This package transitively pulls in two prerelease OpenTelemetry instrumentation packages that have no stable release yet: OpenTelemetry.Instrumentation.EntityFrameworkCore (beta) and RabbitMQ.Client.OpenTelemetry (RC). Both ride the stable OpenTelemetry 1.15.x core. NU5104 is suppressed in this csproj with that justification — consumers inherit the prerelease deps transitively. We will swap to GA as soon as the vendors ship stable.

Product Compatible and additional computed target framework versions.
.NET net10.0 is compatible.  net10.0-android was computed.  net10.0-browser was computed.  net10.0-ios was computed.  net10.0-maccatalyst was computed.  net10.0-macos was computed.  net10.0-tvos was computed.  net10.0-windows was computed. 
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Stratara.ServiceDefaults.AspNetCore

ASP.NET Core extensions on top of Stratara.ServiceDefaults — default health checks, /health and /alive endpoints, and ASP.NET request OpenTelemetry instrumentation. Reference from every API host.

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Three fixes to the same complaint: a host composed exactly as the documentation describes did not
start. Each one was a registration the composites assumed somebody else had made — a tracer, a unit
of work, a Redis connection — and each is now made by the registration that needs it. Nothing that
already worked changes: every fix defers to a registration the host makes itself, in either order,
so the lines a working host added to get past these gaps can simply be deleted. Additive on every
published surface.

### Fixed

- **A host without Redis starts and dispatches.** Every composite that carries a dispatcher
 registered the projection-replay state, and its only implementation took a Redis connection that
 no composite registers, so a host composed as documented failed at its first dispatch unless it
 also ran Redis and called `AddCaching()`. `AddProjectionReplayState()` now chooses at first
 resolution: with a registered `IConnectionMultiplexer` the Redis-backed state as before, without
 one an in-process state with the same lease semantics — and a warning, once at start-up
 (`104_012`), that replay coordination is confined to that process, so a replay requested there
 suppresses publication there only. A deployment whose replay must reach several hosts registers
 the shared connection, in either order. Redis-backed hosts observe no change.
- **Registering a store context now registers its unit of work.**
 `AddNpgsqlWriteDbContextFactory<T>()` registered the context factory, the context and the default
 connection resolver but not the `IWriteUnitOfWork` that the event source, the outbox dispatcher and
 the command worker take from the container — and nothing else in the published packages did, so a
 host composed exactly as documented failed at its first command with a dependency-injection error.
 The write registration now try-adds a scoped `IWriteUnitOfWork` over its context, and
 `AddNpgsqlReadDbContextFactory<T>()` try-adds `IProjectionsUnitOfWork` and `IReadUnitOfWork`
 likewise. A unit of work the host registers itself, before or after, is still the one used; a
 hand-written registration can simply be deleted.
- **`AddMediator()` no longer requires the host to register an OpenTelemetry `Tracer`.** The
 mediator traces every dispatch and obtained its tracer from the host, but nothing registered one,
 so a host that called `AddMediator()` and nothing else failed at the first resolve of `IMediator`.
 `AddMediator()` now registers a fallback that emits the dispatch spans from the framework's
 `Stratara.Application` activity source — a host that subscribes to framework telemetry sees them,
 a host that subscribes to nothing pays for nothing. A `Tracer` the host registers, before or after
 `AddMediator()`, is still the one used, so no existing host changes behaviour; the registration
 line can simply be deleted. The samples, the README and the package README no longer carry it.