Aspire Dashboard

Your app, at a glance. Fully observable.

Real-time visibility into every resource, log, trace, and metric in your distributed app — right from your dev environment.

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Built on OpenTelemetry

The Aspire Dashboard is your command center during development. Powered by OpenTelemetry — the industry-standard observability framework — it automatically collects traces, metrics, and structured logs from every resource in your AppHost using OTLP (OpenTelemetry Protocol) and surfaces them through a rich, interactive UI. No vendor lock-in, no proprietary agents — just open standards.

Resources at your fingertips

See the health, endpoints, and state of every service, container, and project in your application at a glance. Start, stop, and restart resources directly from the dashboard.

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Distributed traces, demystified

Follow requests across service boundaries with detailed span-level traces. Quickly identify bottlenecks, errors, and latency issues in your distributed application.

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Structured logs with context

Structured logs are automatically collected and enriched with resource context. Filter by severity, resource, or trace to find exactly what you need.

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Run the dashboard standalone

The dashboard starts automatically with your Aspire app, but it can also run standalone as a Docker container to monitor any application that sends OpenTelemetry data. Start it with a single command:

Bash

docker run --rm -it -p 18888:18888 -p 4317:18889 -p 4318:18890 -d --name aspire-dashboard \
    mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspire-dashboard:latest

PowerShell

docker run --rm -it -p 18888:18888 -p 4317:18889 -p 4318:18890 -d --name aspire-dashboard `
    mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspire-dashboard:latest

Navigate to http://localhost:18888 to open the dashboard, and point your apps’ OTLP exporter to http://localhost:4317. For more details, see the standalone dashboard guide.

AI-powered debugging

GitHub Copilot, built in

Ask Copilot to summarize resources, explain errors, and debug traces — directly in the dashboard. AI-powered insights give you faster answers without leaving your workflow.

Learn about Copilot

Explain errors with AI

Select any error log and ask Copilot to explain it. Get instant, contextual explanations with suggested fixes — no more searching through documentation.

Get started with Copilot

MCP server for AI agents

Expose your app's telemetry, resources, and logs to AI coding agents via the Model Context Protocol. Give your coding assistants full observability context for smarter debugging.

Configure MCP server

Key capabilities

Resource management

Start, stop, and restart any resource in your application. View endpoints, environment variables, and health status.

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Distributed tracing

Follow requests across service boundaries with span-level detail. Identify bottlenecks and errors instantly.

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Structured & console logs

View structured and console logs from every resource with powerful filtering, search, and error highlighting.

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Metrics & monitoring

Track request counts, error rates, and custom metrics with interactive charts and exemplar linking.

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OpenTelemetry native

Built on OTLP — the open standard for telemetry. Works with any language or framework that supports OpenTelemetry.

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Standalone mode

Use the dashboard independently as a Docker container to monitor any application that sends OpenTelemetry data.

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Beyond development

MCP server

Expose dashboard data to AI agents and coding assistants via the Model Context Protocol. Your AI tools get full observability context.

Configure MCP

Configuration

Customize OTLP endpoints, authentication, telemetry limits, and more. The dashboard adapts to your workflow.

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Security

Understand security considerations for exposing dashboard data and configure authentication for production scenarios.

Security guide

Browser telemetry

Enable browser-based telemetry collection to capture frontend performance data alongside backend traces.

Enable telemetry

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The Aspire Dashboard is included in every Aspire project. Start building and it lights up automatically.

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