---
title: NuGet packages
description: Catalog of NuGet packages available for the Elastic APM .NET Agent, covering the core agent and per-technology instrumentation packages.
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3410/reference/apm/agents/dotnet/nuget-packages
products:
  - APM .NET Agent
  - APM Agent
applies_to:
  - Serverless Observability projects: Generally available
  - Elastic Stack: Generally available
  - Application Performance Monitoring Agent for .NET: Generally available
---

# NuGet packages
Agent instrumentations are released as a set of NuGet packages available on [nuget.org](https://nuget.org). You can add the Agent and specific instrumentations to your .NET application by referencing one or more of these packages.

## Get started

- [Azure Cosmos DB](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3410/reference/apm/agents/dotnet/setup-azure-cosmosdb)
- [Azure Service Bus](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3410/reference/apm/agents/dotnet/setup-azure-servicebus)
- [Azure Storage](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3410/reference/apm/agents/dotnet/setup-azure-storage)
- [Entity Framework 6](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3410/reference/apm/agents/dotnet/setup-ef6)
- [Entity Framework Core](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3410/reference/apm/agents/dotnet/setup-ef-core)
- [Elasticsearch](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3410/reference/apm/agents/dotnet/setup-elasticsearch)
- [gRPC](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3410/reference/apm/agents/dotnet/setup-grpc)
- [MongoDB](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3410/reference/apm/agents/dotnet/setup-mongo-db)
- [SqlClient](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3410/reference/apm/agents/dotnet/setup-sqlclient)
- [StackExchange.Redis](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3410/reference/apm/agents/dotnet/setup-stackexchange-redis)


## Packages

The following NuGet packages are available:
<definitions>
  <definition term="Elastic.Apm">
    The core agent package, contains the [*Public API*](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3410/reference/apm/agents/dotnet/public-api) of the agent. It also contains every tracing component to trace classes that are part of .NET Standard 2.0, which includes the monitoring part for `HttpClient`. Every other Elastic APM .NET Agent package references this package.
  </definition>
  <definition term="Elastic.Apm.NetCoreAll">
    A meta package that references all other Elastic APM .NET Agent package that can automatically configure instrumentation.
    Reference this package to instrument all supported technologies automatically in an ASP.NET Core or .NET application. Individual component packages are also available — they are all referenced by this meta package.
  </definition>
  <definition term="Elastic.Apm.Extensions.Hosting">
    A package for agent registration integration with `Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting.IHostBuilder` registration.
  </definition>
  <definition term="Elastic.Apm.AspNetCore">
    A package for instrumenting ASP.NET Core applications. The main difference between this package and the `Elastic.Apm.NetCoreAll` package is that this package only instruments ASP.NET Core by default, whereas `Elastic.Apm.NetCoreAll` instruments all components that can be automatically configured, such as Entity Framework Core, HTTP calls with `HttpClient`, database calls to SQL Server with `SqlClient`, and so on Additional instrumentations can be added when using `Elastic.Apm.AspNetCore` by referencing the respective NuGet packages and including their configuration code in agent setup.
  </definition>
  <definition term="Elastic.Apm.AspNetFullFramework">
    A package containing ASP.NET .NET Framework instrumentation.
  </definition>
  <definition term="Elastic.Apm.Azure.CosmosDb">
    A package containing instrumentation to capture spans for Azure Cosmos DB with [Microsoft.Azure.Cosmos](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Azure.Cosmos), [Microsoft.Azure.DocumentDb](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Azure.DocumentDb), and [Microsoft.Azure.DocumentDb.Core](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Azure.DocumentDb.Core) packages.
  </definition>
  <definition term="Elastic.Apm.Azure.ServiceBus">
    A package containing instrumentation to capture transactions and spans for messages sent and received from Azure Service Bus with [Microsoft.Azure.ServiceBus](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Azure.ServiceBus/) and [Azure.Messaging.ServiceBus](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Azure.Messaging.ServiceBus/) packages.
  </definition>
  <definition term="Elastic.Apm.Azure.Storage">
    A package containing instrumentation to capture spans for interaction with Azure Storage with [Azure.Storage.Queues](https://www.nuget.org/packages/azure.storage.queues/), [Azure.Storage.Blobs](https://www.nuget.org/packages/azure.storage.blobs/) and [Azure.Storage.Files.Shares](https://www.nuget.org/packages/azure.storage.files.shares/) packages.
  </definition>
  <definition term="Elastic.Apm.EntityFrameworkCore">
    A package containing Entity Framework Core instrumentation.
  </definition>
  <definition term="Elastic.Apm.EntityFramework6">
    A package containing an interceptor to automatically create spans for database operations executed by Entity Framework 6 on behalf of the application.
  </definition>
  <definition term="Elastic.Apm.MongoDb">
    A package containing support for [MongoDB.Driver](https://www.nuget.org/packages/MongoDB.Driver/).
  </definition>
  <definition term="Elastic.Apm.SqlClient">
    A package containing [System.Data.SqlClient](https://www.nuget.org/packages/System.Data.SqlClient) and [Microsoft.Data.SqlClient](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient) instrumentation.
  </definition>
</definitions>

<note>
  this functionality now included by default in `Elastic.Apm` as of 1.24.0
</note>

<definitions>
  <definition term="Elastic.Apm.StackExchange.Redis">
    A package containing instrumentation to capture spans for commands sent to redis with [StackExchange.Redis](https://www.nuget.org/packages/StackExchange.Redis/) package.
  </definition>
</definitions>