Support filtering frames

We've hit a scenario where we want to reduce additional noise from framework components to cut down logging costs.

Specific scenario we have is with ASP.NET MVC and ActionFilterAttributes, we have several registered and it results in a fair amount of excessive information in the logs, for example:

   at async Task<HttpResponseMessage> System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.CallOnActionExecutedAsync(HttpActionContext actionContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<Task<HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)
   at async Task<HttpResponseMessage> System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.CallOnActionExecutedAsync(HttpActionContext actionContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<Task<HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)
   at async Task<HttpResponseMessage> System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.ExecuteActionFilterAsyncCore(HttpActionContext actionContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<Task<HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)
   at async Task<HttpResponseMessage> System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.CallOnActionExecutedAsync(HttpActionContext actionContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<Task<HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)
   at async Task<HttpResponseMessage> System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.CallOnActionExecutedAsync(HttpActionContext actionContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<Task<HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)
   at async Task<HttpResponseMessage> System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.ExecuteActionFilterAsyncCore(HttpActionContext actionContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<Task<HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)
   at async Task<HttpResponseMessage> System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.CallOnActionExecutedAsync(HttpActionContext actionContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<Task<HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)
   at async Task<HttpResponseMessage> System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.CallOnActionExecutedAsync(HttpActionContext actionContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<Task<HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)
   at async Task<HttpResponseMessage> System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.ExecuteActionFilterAsyncCore(HttpActionContext actionContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<Task<HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)
   at async Task<HttpResponseMessage> System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.CallOnActionExecutedAsync(HttpActionContext actionContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<Task<HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)
   at async Task<HttpResponseMessage> System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.CallOnActionExecutedAsync(HttpActionContext actionContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<Task<HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)
   at async Task<HttpResponseMessage> System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.ExecuteActionFilterAsyncCore(HttpActionContext actionContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<Task<HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)
   at async Task<HttpResponseMessage> System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.CallOnActionExecutedAsync(HttpActionContext actionContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<Task<HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)
   at async Task<HttpResponseMessage> System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.CallOnActionExecutedAsync(HttpActionContext actionContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<Task<HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)
   at async Task<HttpResponseMessage> System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.ExecuteActionFilterAsyncCore(HttpActionContext actionContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<Task<HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)
   at async Task<HttpResponseMessage> System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.CallOnActionExecutedAsync(HttpActionContext actionContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<Task<HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)
   at async Task<HttpResponseMessage> System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.CallOnActionExecutedAsync(HttpActionContext actionContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<Task<HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)
   at async Task<HttpResponseMessage> System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.ExecuteActionFilterAsyncCore(HttpActionContext actionContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<Task<HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)
   at async Task<HttpResponseMessage> System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.CallOnActionExecutedAsync(HttpActionContext actionContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<Task<HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)
   at async Task<HttpResponseMessage> System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.CallOnActionExecutedAsync(HttpActionContext actionContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<Task<HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)
   at async Task<HttpResponseMessage> System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.ExecuteActionFilterAsyncCore(HttpActionContext actionContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<Task<HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)
   at async Task<HttpResponseMessage> System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.CallOnActionExecutedAsync(HttpActionContext actionContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<Task<HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)
   at async Task<HttpResponseMessage> System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.CallOnActionExecutedAsync(HttpActionContext actionContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<Task<HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)
   at async Task<HttpResponseMessage> System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.ExecuteActionFilterAsyncCore(HttpActionContext actionContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<Task<HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)
   at async Task<HttpResponseMessage> System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.CallOnActionExecutedAsync(HttpActionContext actionContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<Task<HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)
   at async Task<HttpResponseMessage> System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.CallOnActionExecutedAsync(HttpActionContext actionContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<Task<HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)
   at async Task<HttpResponseMessage> System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.ExecuteActionFilterAsyncCore(HttpActionContext actionContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<Task<HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)
   at async Task<HttpResponseMessage> System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.CallOnActionExecutedAsync(HttpActionContext actionContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<Task<HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)
   at async Task<HttpResponseMessage> System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.CallOnActionExecutedAsync(HttpActionContext actionContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<Task<HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)
   at async Task<HttpResponseMessage> System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.ExecuteActionFilterAsyncCore(HttpActionContext actionContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<Task<HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)
   at async Task<HttpResponseMessage> System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.CallOnActionExecutedAsync(HttpActionContext actionContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<Task<HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)
   at async Task<HttpResponseMessage> System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.CallOnActionExecutedAsync(HttpActionContext actionContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<Task<HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)
   at async Task<HttpResponseMessage> System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.ExecuteActionFilterAsyncCore(HttpActionContext actionContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<Task<HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)
   at async Task<HttpResponseMessage> System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.CallOnActionExecutedAsync(HttpActionContext actionContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<Task<HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)
   at async Task<HttpResponseMessage> System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.CallOnActionExecutedAsync(HttpActionContext actionContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<Task<HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)
   at async Task<HttpResponseMessage> System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.ExecuteActionFilterAsyncCore(HttpActionContext actionContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<Task<HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)
   at async Task<HttpResponseMessage> System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.CallOnActionExecutedAsync(HttpActionContext actionContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<Task<HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)
   at async Task<HttpResponseMessage> System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.CallOnActionExecutedAsync(HttpActionContext actionContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<Task<HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)
   at async Task<HttpResponseMessage> System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.ExecuteActionFilterAsyncCore(HttpActionContext actionContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<Task<HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)
   at async Task<HttpResponseMessage> System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.CallOnActionExecutedAsync(HttpActionContext actionContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<Task<HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)
   at async Task<HttpResponseMessage> System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.CallOnActionExecutedAsync(HttpActionContext actionContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<Task<HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)
   at async Task<HttpResponseMessage> System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.ExecuteActionFilterAsyncCore(HttpActionContext actionContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<Task<HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)

This is included in any stack trace as from our API and represents about 75% of the stacktrace itself. Do you think there would be value in supporting some filtering mechanism to allow consumers to reduce the output?

It will be also cool to have such filtering feature to remove boring noise like

 at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()                      
 at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task) 
 at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter`1.GetResult()

and many other TPL glue methods, who are just juggling around execution flow. Those parts of TPL stack occupy a lot of space in nested async stack traces.

This feature can be implemented with optional delegate, eg:

public static T Demystify<T>(this T exception, Func<MethodInfo, bool> filter = null) where T : Exception

These methods won't come out in the trace

 at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()                      
 at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task) 
 at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter`1.GetResult()

Ok. I really did not notice. But other methods can be cited as an example:

Task<object> System.Threading.Tasks.TaskHelpersExtensions.CastToObject<T>(Task<T> task)
object CallSite.Target(Closure, CallSite, object)
TRet System.Dynamic.UpdateDelegates.UpdateAndExecute1<T0, TRet>(CallSite site, T0 arg0)

Limiting last of frames, like a 5 bottoms of frames like in red marker Can be relate with this issue?