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

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