Monitoring and Logging with .NET and Azure

Duration: 2 days

A two-day workshop on implementing robust telemetry in .NET services: strongly typed logging, distributed tracing, metrics, OpenTelemetry, Aspire 13, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, and Prometheus/Grafana integration.

Who Should Attend

• Developers and technical professionals who want to deepen their skills in Monitoring and Logging with .NET and Azure.
• Architects and team leads evaluating practical implementation patterns.
• Teams adopting modern engineering practices for delivery and operations.

Prerequisites

Solid C#/.NET experience; basic Azure familiarity is helpful.

Learning Goals

• Understand the core concepts and architecture behind the course topic
• Apply recommended implementation patterns in practical scenarios
• Build and validate solutions using modern tooling and workflows
• Troubleshoot common issues and improve reliability
• Plan next steps for production-ready adoption

Course Content

• Telemetry fundamentals: logs, metrics, distributed tracing
• Strongly typed logging with source-generated logger message patterns and logging scopes
• Logging with ILogger/ILoggerFactory; structured logging best practices
• Activities and distributed tracing; W3C context and baggage
• Metrics with System.Diagnostics.Metrics, EventCounters, and dotnet-counters
• Health checks and liveness/readiness endpoints
• Aspire 13: AppHost wiring, Aspire dashboard, OpenTelemetry defaults
• OpenTelemetry setup in .NET: exporters, sampling, resource attributes
• Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics; Kusto (KQL) queries
• Alerts and autoscale based on metrics; Azure Load Testing overview
• Prometheus/Grafana integration and dashboards
• Monitoring for Azure Container Apps and Kubernetes deployments

Hands-on Labs

• Add strongly typed logging to a sample .NET service; verify structured outputs
• Enable tracing with Activities/OpenTelemetry; view traces in Aspire dashboard and App Insights
• Configure metrics and counters; inspect with Aspire and Grafana
• Wire Aspire 13 AppHost with OTel collector, App Insights exporter, and Prometheus
• Create Grafana dashboards for latency/throughput/errors; add Azure Monitor alerts
• Deploy the instrumented service to Azure Container Apps and validate telemetry end-to-end

Outcomes

After completing this course, participants can apply the covered concepts and tooling to implement reliable solutions in real-world projects.