Work with logs, traces, dashboards, telemetry, and diagnostics in Aspire.
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name: aspire-monitoring
description: >-
**ANALYSIS SKILL** - Observe Aspire apps: logs, traces, metrics, resource state,
telemetry export, browser telemetry, and the standalone dashboard. Routes between local
Aspire CLI, AKS workload diagnostics, and deployed Azure resource health.
USE FOR: aspire logs, aspire otel logs, aspire otel traces, aspire otel spans, aspire
describe, aspire ps, aspire export, aspire dashboard run, --include-hidden, browser logs
in dashboard, WithBrowserLogs, App Insights query, AKS pod logs, container app logs.
DO NOT USE FOR: start/stop/wait (use aspire-orchestration), deploy/publish/destroy (use
aspire-deployment), AppHost code edits like WithBrowserLogs() (use aspireify), Azure
provisioning (use azure-prepare).
INVOKES: aspire CLI, azure-diagnostics (deployed Azure), kubectl + Container Insights.
FOR SINGLE OPERATIONS: Run the aspire CLI command directly for quick log or describe lookups.
license: MIT
metadata:
author: Microsoft
version: "0.0.1"
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# Aspire Monitoring
> Aspire CLI provides full observability **locally**. For deployed apps, route to platform-specific tools.
## Diagnostics Bridge — Where To Look… install to load the full skill