Feature Idea: Support reading from environmental variable to disable .NET Core agent

There’s other agents that support some variety of launch parameters and/or environmental variable conformance as to whether the New Relic agent runs or not.

.NET core relies on reading a XML file.

It should read from this in a tiered structure (similar to how AWS would get credentials), with the environment variable overriding the configuration file.

For anyone reading and wanting a workaround - we ultimately decided on it was easier to completely bypass the agent installation on envs that we did not want the agent running.

New Relic Edit

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Hey @charles.lee - Thanks for posting your feature idea here. I’ve got that filed internally now & I have added a poll here for others to vote on.

You’ve got to be kidding me right? Is this still not possible?
I need to disable the agent for Test, Acceptance and Staging, using Docker.
The image we build is exactly the same for Staging and Production, so how on earth can I disable the agent based on the environment it’s running on if this is not possible yet???

Setting CORECLR_ENABLE_PROFILING=0 seems like a valid work-around.

Yes, the above solution will work.

CORECLR_ENABLE_PROFILING=0

This is the Microsoft-defined method for disabling all .NET Core profiling via an environment variable.