Use Aspire service discovery instead of hardcoded ports

Let Aspire pass service discovery information so application code can use logical service names instead of local port numbers.

July 19, 2026 · 2 min · Lukas Walter

Observability for Agents with OpenTelemetry, Aspire, and Application Insights

How to make Microsoft Agent Framework behavior visible in production with OpenTelemetry traces, token usage, model calls, tool calls, Aspire local debugging, and Application Insights monitoring.

July 8, 2026 · 17 min · Lukas Walter

Expose a Python FastAPI AI tool as an Aspire service

Keep Python AI code behind an HTTP boundary and let Aspire wire it into the local system.

July 5, 2026 · 1 min · Lukas Walter

Use the Aspire Dashboard Standalone

Stop setting up complex observability stacks for local dev. Learn how to run the Aspire Dashboard as a standalone, lightweight OTLP viewer for any language.

April 22, 2026 · 2 min · Lukas Walter

Debugging LLM Timeouts in .NET

A repeatable local setup for timeout triage in .NET LLM workloads using Aspire, OpenTelemetry, and Ollama.

February 22, 2026 · 5 min · Lukas Walter