Instrumenting your .NET apps with OpenTelemetry is easy. But what about actually seeing those metrics and traces in action? Here's how to stream observability data from your .NET services into Grafana — in just a few lines of code.

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Learn how to implement comprehensive observability for .NET applications using OpenTelemetry and Grafana Cloud. The guide covers installing OpenTelemetry packages, configuring automatic instrumentation for ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework, and other libraries, setting up OTLP export to Grafana Cloud, and viewing traces and logs in unified dashboards. This setup provides distributed tracing, log correlation, and monitoring capabilities that scale from single services to complex microservice architectures.

Monitoring .NET Applications with OpenTelemetry and Grafana