One of my biggest problems was the local development story. I wanted logs, traces and metrics support locally but didn’t want to spin up a multitude of Docker images just to get that to work. I wanted logs to be able to check what my metrics, traces, baggage and activity spans look like before I deploy.
Recently, the .NET team launched .NET Aspire and it’s awesome. Super easy to visualize everything in one place in my local development stack and it acts as an orchestrator as code.
Then when we deploy to k8s we just point the OTEL endpoint at the DataDog Agent and everything just works.
We just avoid the DataDog custom trace libraries and SDK and stick with OTEL.
Recently, the .NET team launched .NET Aspire and it’s awesome. Super easy to visualize everything in one place in my local development stack and it acts as an orchestrator as code.
Then when we deploy to k8s we just point the OTEL endpoint at the DataDog Agent and everything just works.
We just avoid the DataDog custom trace libraries and SDK and stick with OTEL.
Now it’s a really nice development experience.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/aspire/fundamentals...
https://docs.datadoghq.com/opentelemetry/#overview