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.
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.
Key capabilities
Resource management
Start, stop, and restart any resource in your application. View endpoints, environment variables, and health status.
Learn moreDistributed tracing
Follow requests across service boundaries with span-level detail. Identify bottlenecks and errors instantly.
Learn moreStructured & console logs
View structured and console logs from every resource with powerful filtering, search, and error highlighting.
Learn moreMetrics & monitoring
Track request counts, error rates, and custom metrics with interactive charts and exemplar linking.
Learn moreOpenTelemetry native
Built on OTLP — the open standard for telemetry. Works with any language or framework that supports OpenTelemetry.
Learn moreStandalone mode
Use the dashboard independently as a Docker container to monitor any application that sends OpenTelemetry data.
Learn moreBeyond 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 MCPConfiguration
Customize OTLP endpoints, authentication, telemetry limits, and more. The dashboard adapts to your workflow.
View optionsSecurity
Understand security considerations for exposing dashboard data and configure authentication for production scenarios.
Security guideBrowser telemetry
Enable browser-based telemetry collection to capture frontend performance data alongside backend traces.
Enable telemetryReady to see your app in action?
The Aspire Dashboard is included in every Aspire project. Start building and it lights up automatically.