Configuration

The agent supports 3 methods of configuration:

• Environment variables
• IConfiguration
• ConfigurationManager.AppSettings

The following options are available:

Name	Description	Env Var	IConfiguration/ConfigurationManager
Api Key	The authentication token used to authorize the agent	NV_API_KEY	ApiKey
Name	The name of the agent, can be useful to filter to specific agents	NV_NAME	Name
Tags	The tags for the agent, can be useful to filter to specific agents	NV_TAGS	Tags

IConfiguration

If you are using the IConfiguration format you can pass an IConfiguration object to the agent when you start it:

using Nerd.Vision;

NerdVision.Start(configuration);

Example appsettings.json:

{
    "NerdVision": {
        "ApiKey": "api_key_here",
        "Name": "SampleApplication",
        "Tags": "AppType=Sample,Org=MyOrg"
    }
}

Starting the agent

The agent can be started with either of the following overloads:

using Nerd.Vision;

NerdVision.Start(IConfiguration configuration?);

using Nerd.Vision;

NerdVision.Start(string apiKey, string name?, Dictionary<string, string> tags?, IConfiguration configuration?);

? indicates an optional parameter.