Modern distributed systems require reliable, standardized, and centralized performance monitoring, and OpenTelemetry is becoming the key foundation for collecting logs, metrics, and traces in heterogeneous cloud environments. This session demonstrates how to build an end‑to‑end observability solution using .NET Aspire, its integrated OTLP pipeline, and Azure services for processing and visualizing telemetry. Participants will learn how to configure OpenTelemetry in .NET applications, how to use the Aspire Dashboard for local development, and how to implement scalable cloud monitoring without relying on additional tools such as Prometheus or Grafana. The focus is on practical examples, architectural patterns, and real‑world challenges in production environments.

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Target audience: Cloud architects, .NET developers, and DevOps/SRE engineers implementing observability in distributed systems.
Preferred session duration: 45-minute conference session