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aspire otel command

aspire otel - View OpenTelemetry data (logs, spans, traces) from a running apphost.

Aspire CLI
aspire otel [command] [options]

The aspire otel command provides subcommands for viewing OpenTelemetry data collected by the Aspire Dashboard from a running AppHost. You can view structured logs, distributed trace spans, and trace summaries directly from the terminal.

The data is retrieved from the Dashboard’s telemetry API, so an AppHost must be running with the Dashboard enabled.

The following options are available:

  • -?, -h, --help

    Prints help and usage documentation for the available commands and options.

  • -d, --debug

    Enable debug logging to the console, which prints detailed information about what Aspire CLI is doing when a command is run.

  • --wait-for-debugger

    Wait for a debugger to attach before running a command.

The following commands are available:

CommandFunction
aspire otel logsView structured logs from the Dashboard telemetry API.
aspire otel spansView spans from the Dashboard telemetry API.
aspire otel tracesView traces from the Dashboard telemetry API.