Matt McCleary: Telemetry & Observability in .NET Aspire – Episode 336

Challenges

  • Gaining real-time insights into application performance and health in .NET applications
  • Managing and interpreting telemetry data effectively for troubleshooting and optimization
  • Ensuring observability in complex, cloud-native architectures

Solutions

  • Insights from Matt McCleary on leveraging telemetry and observability in .NET Aspire
  • Best practices for implementing distributed tracing, logging, and metrics in .NET applications
  • Strategies for improving visibility into application behavior and diagnosing issues faster

Benefits

  • Enhanced application monitoring with real-time insights into performance and reliability
  • Faster issue detection and resolution through improved observability practices
  • Increased stability and efficiency in cloud-native .NET applications

Matt McCleary is a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft working on observability tools to empower developers to be successful. Matt started his career in engineering and has worked in tech for 10 years, the latest 8 at Microsoft. He’s been on the Azure Monitor team for most of that time. His passion is listening to customers and finding ways to make the product better. In his spare time, he finds himself coaching his 8-year-old son’s basketball team and playing in an adult men’s basketball league.

Topics of Discussion:
[03:26] Matt recounts his early interest in engineering.
[06:29] The strategy around Azure Monitor.
[10:04] The three pillars of logs, traces, and metrics.
[15:02] Recording custom metrics.
[17:29] What is a distributed trace?
[24:08] The concept of a custom event.
[27:29] Future plans for Azure Monitor.
[31:04] Integration with .NET Aspire.
[34:04] Guidance on the best practices for Azure Monitor.
[36:40] Application insights resources.