Windows Azure Diagnostics supports the use of Trace to log messages. The Windows Azure SDK provides the DiagnosticMonitorTraceListener trace listener to capture the messages. The Windows Azure Diagnostics basic logs data buffer is used to configure their persistence to the Windows Azure Table Service.
The trace listener must be added to the Listeners collection for the Windows Azure hosted service. This is typically done through configuration in the appropriate app.config or web.config file, but it can also be done in code. When it creates a worker or web role, the Windows Azure tooling for Visual Studio adds the DiagnosticMonitorTraceListener to the list of trace listeners specified in the Configuration section of the relevant configuration file.
Methods of the System.Diagnostics.Trace class can be used to write error, warning and informational messages. When persisting the messages to the storage service, the Diagnostics Agent can filter...