Glimpse WebAPI Support

Question

Does Glimpse (the diagnostics plugin for .NET) support diagnostic information from ASP.NET Web API? I installed it and ran against the website, it captures ASP.NET MVC requests and returns information about them but I don't see any Web API request information.

http://getglimpse.com/

Creon

Answer 1

There is no official support for ASP.NET Web API yet for Glimpse, but there is a feature request on the GitHub page for the project; although this is 4 months old and the comment says they were working on support for MVC4, which came out last week. I would guess it might be available soon, but who knows.

Glimpse GitHub Project Page - Issue 282 - Request for support of ASP.NET Web API

Melodymeloid

We have now finished MVC4 support and the next framework we take on will be WebAPI. Its a big framework and will take a bit of work. Please feel free to go to the referenced issue and comment what you would like to see. – Farly

@Farly - Awesome, I have taken a look at Glimpse quickly and I really like it. Also saw on Twitter the Heads-Up Display was recently released, very much looking forward to trying that out. Great work! – Melodymeloid

That link isn't really a request for Glimpse to work with WebAPI, so much as bug that it doesn't work with WebAPI help pages. It appears, however, that some work is being done for WebAPI github.com/Glimpse/Glimpse/pull/736 and blog.getglimpse.com/2014/03/11/glimpse-1-8-4-released – Camelback

Answer 2

The issue Mark pointed to was actually a bug where Glimpse interfered with WebApi's help pages, and the links EBarr pointed out were for a bug that interferes with Web API Descriptors.

There was some actual work being done to get Web API support, but the pull request was never completed and the issue was closed in June of 2016, to be included on a huge list of "improvement ideas". This blog post claims to at least get basic stuff like trace logging from web api requests, but I was unable to get it working with the latest version of Glimpse. I'm suspecting the fix for the issue EBarr mentioned might actually make Glimpse ignore non-MVC requests.

Prager