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OpenTelemetry for .NET Articles, Tutorials & News

OpenTelemetry for .NET articles, tutorials, and news from the DotNetNews archive.

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OpenTelemetry for .NET work shows up across many DotNetNews issues because teams keep hitting the same implementation questions. OpenTelemetry for .NET is a recurring focus for C# and .NET developers working in the Microsoft ecosystem.

Recurring subtopics in recent issues include OpenTelemetry .NET, OTel ASP.NET Core, distributed tracing .NET, and metrics OpenTelemetry. When a subtopic never appears in the archive titles or excerpts, it is left out of this introduction.

Expect publisher tutorials, release notes, architecture write-ups, and field notes linked from DotNetNews issues. Start here is a short editorial shortlist for OpenTelemetry for .NET; the archive list is chronological and larger. Secondary angles such as OpenTelemetry .NET and OTel ASP.NET Core appear when the archive actually covered them. Cross-links to Application Insights for .NET and Serilog for ASP.NET Core help when the problem spans more than one tag.

Each card points at the original publisher URL and the DotNetNews issue that carried it, so you can read the article in context or jump straight to the source.

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Editor picks for OpenTelemetry

  1. OpenTelemetry in .NET: End-to-End Distributed Tracing Explained

    c-sharpcorner.com Issue #503

    Good primer material for teams adopting distributed tracing without yet having a clear end-to-end mental model.

    Read article Issue #503

  2. Building AI-Powered API Deprecation Management Platforms with .NET

    c-sharpcorner.com Issue #494

    Deprecation management is a good candidate for automation, and observability belongs in that conversation.

    Read article Issue #494

  3. Improve your AI coding agent with runtime context from Aspire MCP

    timdeschryver.dev Issue #479

    A smart extension of AI-assisted coding: give the agent runtime truth, not just source files, and the quality of analysis improves fast.

    Read article Issue #479

  4. Propagating OpenTelemetry context in .NET

    meziantou.net Issue #476

    Context propagation is one of those observability details that separates usable traces from broken ones.

    Read article Issue #476

  5. Bringing Serilog-Style Destructuring to OpenTelemetry Logs

    medium.com Issue #468

    A useful bridge for teams moving from Serilog to OpenTelemetry without giving up structured payloads they depend on.

    Read article Issue #468

  6. Tracing Agent Sessions with OpenTelemetry & Aspire

    youtube.com Issue #463

    Good observability content for anyone exploring agent workflows, especially with Aspire and OpenTelemetry in the tooling loop.

    Read article Issue #463

  7. Modernizing .NET — Part 24: Modern Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana

    medium.com Issue #461

    A solid observability primer for teams moving older services onto a more modern .NET operational stack.

    Read article Issue #461

  8. Propagating OpenTelemetry context in .NET

    meziantou.net Issue #457

    One of the more immediately useful observability reads here; context propagation mistakes are easy to miss.

    Read article Issue #457

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