.NET Aspire Blog Posts

Using NATS with .NET Aspire

Open source messaging tools find a home in .NET distributed applications. NATS makes it easier for the messages of at-scale applications to work with various service endpoints.

Observability with Aspire

Observability goes beyond basic logging to provide deeper insights into system performance and behavior. Carl walks us through setting up observability in a .NET application using OpenTelemetry and the .NET Aspire Dashboard. By integrating logs, metrics, and traces, he demonstrates how to track requests, monitor performance, and gain real-time visibility into an Umbraco application—solving problems that traditional logging alone can’t easily address.

Debug and Test Multi-Environment Postgres Db in .NET with Aspire + Neon

Neon is a serverless Postgres database designed for modern cloud applications.

.NET Aspire and AI with Chris Ayers

Chris Ayers is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer on Microsoft’s AzRel Risk SRE team, drawing on years of experience in cloud architecture, software development, and DevOps practices. He’s passionate about continuous improvement, driving reliability, and sharing industry best practices. Chris talks on Aspire, Azure, and Open AI.

Building with .NET Aspire

.NET Aspire, Microsoft’s new cloud-ready stack, has captured the excitement of the .NET community. This session will dive into what .NET Aspire is, explore the problems it solves, and provide insights into how it can streamline cloud-native development.

Why should you use .NET Aspire?

.NET Aspire is a set of NuGet packages, tools, and project templates designed to simplify the creation of distributed applications. Microsoft developed .NET Aspire in response to developers’ requests…

NET Aspire 9.0 - Complete R&D Deployment 🚀

.NET Aspire 9.0 is a new approach in the .NET ecosystem that combines DevOps, Cloud-Native, Observability, and simplified microservices management capabilities. It enables the creation of simple and scalable microservices and distributed applications through built-in orchestration, integrated dashboard, and automatic infrastructure resource management.

ASP.NET Community Standup - .NET Aspire Q&A

Join us for a Q&A with Damian Edwards on all things .NET Aspire!

Setting Up Grafana for Monitoring .NET Apps with Docker

Set up Grafana with Docker and Prometheus to monitor .NET apps. Learn to visualize metrics and create real-time dashboards.

Get Started Using .NET Aspire with SQL Server & Azure SQL Database -- Visual Studio Magazine

Microsoft experts are making the rounds educating developers about the company's new, opinionated, cloud-ready stack for building observable, production ready, distributed, cloud-native applications with .NET.