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AspireDashboardHelper 1.0.13

Aspire Dashboard Helper

The Aspire Dashboard Helper is a library that helps you to add OpenTelemetry to your application and send the data to an Aspire Dashboard running via docker.

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Add the following code to your program.cs file

var sName = "Application Name";
builder.AddCommonOTelLogging(() => ResourceBuilder.CreateDefault().AddService($"{sName} {builder.Configuration.GetValue<string>("env")}"));
builder.AddCommonOTelMonitoring($"{sName} {builder.Configuration.GetValue<string>("env")}", builder.Configuration.GetValue<string>("BuildNumber"), sName);
builder.AddOldOpenTel();

Add the following settings to your appsettings.json file

"AspireDashboard": "http://localhost:18889/",//The URL to send data to the Aspire Dashboard
"env": "Dev",//The environment of your application eg Dev, Test, Prod etc
"BuildNumber": "",//The build or version number of your application

To run the Aspire Dashboard from a docker compose file you can use the following code

 aspire-dashboard:
 image: mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/nightly/aspire-dashboard:8.0.0-preview.5
 container_name: aspire-dashboard
 expose:
 - "18888"
 - "18889"
 ports:
 - 18889:18889

• localhost:18888 will be the URL of the Aspire Dashboard
• localhost:18889 will be the URL your application uses to send OpenTelemetry data to the Aspire Dashboard

An example of how to use the Aspire Dashboard can be found https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/samples/dotnet/aspire-samples/aspire-standalone-dashboard/