Quick Tip originally published on lukaswalter.dev . Use the Aspire Dashboard Standalone Many see Aspire as a full orchestration suite, but the Dashboard can run standalone. If you want a beautiful, real-time UI for your logs, traces, and metrics without the full orchestration overhead (or if you're working on a non-Aspire project), you can run it solo. It's a perfect, lightweight OTLP-compatible viewer for any language. C#, Go, Python, you name it. Run it via Docker This is the fastest way to spin it up: docker run --rm -it \ -p 18888:18888 \ -p 4317:18889 \ -p 4318:18890 \ --name aspire-dashboard \ mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspire-dashboard:latest Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode Port 18888: The Dashboard UI. Port 4317: OTLP/gRPC ingestion. Port 4318: OTLP/HTTP ingestion. Accessing the Dashboard By default, the dashboard is secured. When it starts up, it generates a unique Browser Token for your session. If you use the docker run command, the dashboard will print a login URL to the console.…