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title: 'Monitoring'
excerpt: 'Chapter introduction for logs, traces, metrics, and the Aspire dashboard.'
icon: 'Activity'
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## Chapter overview

Aspire ships with OpenTelemetry instrumentation and a local dashboard. This chapter covers:

- **Telemetry** — OTLP export, log correlation, custom spans
- **Dashboard** — resource graph, live logs, trace waterfall

Use the nested pages in the sidebar to walk through each topic. Long configuration samples collapse automatically so you can focus on the section you need.