.NET Aspire Dashboard Deep Dive - Logs, Metrics, Traces & More!

Visualize OpenTelemetry data with the Aspire Dashboard: Any App, Any Framework, Completely Free! Let's set up a .NET Blazor app with OpenTelemetry and then pipe the data to visualize it in the Aspire dashboard locally in a docker container. .NET MAUI, Blazor, ASP.NET Core, WinUI, WinForms, WPF, you name it!

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Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
01:36 - Adding OpenTelemetry to a Blazor App
03:20 - Running Aspire Dashboard Standalone
07:50 - Configuration with Aspire Service Defaults
10:50 - Adding Aspire Orchestration
15:05 - Publishing to Anywhere
16:30 - Wrap-up

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[adefwebserver]

I watched several videos on the subject and this is the first one that allowed me to 'get it'

[curiousnetdev]

Nice video! Is there a way we can add projects from other solutions?

[Fntco]

but why there is no console logs in docker container ?

[Ajmal_Yazdani]

super cool James. how we can use this aspire dashboard over kubernetes (AKS) and go beyond local to production?

[nerdydragon]

Will this work with Blazor Standalone? Or is it only the new templates?

[soonhongng]

Aspire dashboard is great for simplicity, but sadly not production-ready.

It doesn't persist dashboard data, and for 'Metrics' u can only look data up to 12 hours ago.

We need data starting from day 1 until the present moment. It would be great, if it can use volume to persist data.

[RelevantDad]

I have a python api. Is there a way to add metrics for that?

[yufgyug]

i really dislike the notion of certain tools being 'development env only'. sure, it helps during development, but i want my dev env to be as close to production as possible so that i can spot any nuances early, and/or be able to replicate issues that arise. not to mention that i want to be able to practice using the tools available to me on production so that i can understand them better.