What Id can I use when correlating changes across entities.

I am trying to gather up all audit rows that happened as a result of the same request. I am not using transactions at the moment, but my DbContext is a scoped dependency so I can I rely on ConnectionId?

Or, should I be passing a custom CorrelationId down all my layers every time?

Should I maybe add transactions to all my requests so I have the TransactionId? Or will that cause me great pain when it comes to scoped transactions/distributed transactions?

[thepirat000]

It looks good to me.

If you are in a ASP.NET Core Web API, you could use the HttpContext.TraceIdentifier value (a unique value per request). So you can add this correlation ID to the events via a Custom Action.

But I would recommend to also activate the audit logging for the controller actions(s) with Audit.WebApi library. It will generate audit events for each call to your API, including the TraceIdentifier.

Take a look at the web api template provided. You can install the template with:

dotnet new -i Audit.WebApi.Template

And then you can generate a project that uses both Audit.WebApi and Audit.EntityFramework both including the correlation:

dotnet new webapiaudit -E

[thepirat000]

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