Your OpenTelemetry traces stop at HTTP
OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation gets you started, but business operations stay invisible. Claude Code helps you add custom spans, choose useful attributes, and configure sampling that survives production.
Observability
Your running Aspire app, queryable over MCP
The Aspire dashboard exposes runtime data through an MCP server. Claude Code can query the running Aspire app directly — logs, traces, and resource state — so you stop tab-switching and copying stack traces into chat.
The Aspire AppHost is your architecture map
The .NET Aspire AppHost makes your distributed application topology visible in code. That’s exactly the context Claude Code needs to be useful — from wiring new services to debugging startup failures.