Azure & DevOps Podcast

Matt McCleary: Telemetry & Observability in .NET Aspire - Episode 336

Feb 10, 2025

40:50

Matt McCleary is a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft working on observability tools to empower developers to be successful. Matt started his career in engineering and has worked in tech for 10 years, the latest 8 at Microsoft. He’s been on the Azure Monitor team for most of that time. His passion is listening to customers and finding ways to make the product better. In his spare time, he finds himself coaching his 8-year-old son’s basketball team and playing in an adult men’s basketball league.

Topics of Discussion:

[3:26] Matt recounts his early interest in engineering and a pivotal moment during a college tour, along with his transition from civil engineering to business intelligence consulting, which led him to telemetry.

[6:29] The strategy around Azure Monitor.

[10:04] The three pillars of logs, traces, and metrics.

[15:02] Recording custom metrics.

[17:29] What is a distributed trace?

[24:08] The concept of a custom event.

[27:29] Future plans for Azure Monitor.

[31:04] Integration with .NET Aspire.

[34:04] Guidance on the best practices for Azure Monitor.

[36:40] Application insights resources.

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