What resilience patterns are included by default?

It configures the Microsoft StandardResilienceHandler, which includes industry-standard retry, circuit breaker, rate limiter, and timeout policies.

Does this skill support custom health checks?

Yes, the skill provides patterns for adding database, Redis, and custom domain-specific health checks to the shared configuration project.

Can I use this with non-web services like background workers?

Absolutely. The skill is designed to work with any IHostApplicationBuilder, ensuring consistency for both Web APIs and background worker services.

What is the purpose of the ServiceDefaults project in Aspire?

It centralizes configuration for observability, health checks, and service discovery so all projects in an Aspire solution behave consistently and share the same infrastructure settings.

How does it handle OpenTelemetry exporters?

It automatically detects OTLP endpoints provided by the Aspire AppHost to send telemetry to the Aspire Dashboard or external collectors like Jaeger.

Aspire Service Defaults Manager

Name: Aspire Service Defaults Manager
Author: Aaronontheweb

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Analytics & Monitoring

Streamlines the creation and management of shared ServiceDefaults projects to centralize observability, resilience, and discovery in .NET Aspire applications.

This skill automates the setup of a standardized ServiceDefaults project for .NET Aspire ecosystems, providing a single point of configuration for critical cross-cutting concerns. It simplifies the implementation of OpenTelemetry for logging and tracing, configures comprehensive health checks for liveness and readiness, and integrates standard HTTP resilience patterns and service discovery. By centralizing these configurations, it ensures architectural consistency across microservices and significantly reduces the boilerplate code required to make distributed .NET applications production-ready and observable.

Key Features

01Pre-configured HTTP resilience handlers with retries and circuit breakers

02Centralized OpenTelemetry configuration for unified logging, tracing, and metrics

03Automated ServiceDefaults project scaffolding for .NET Aspire

04Standardized health check endpoints for liveness and readiness probes

05Seamless integration with Aspire AppHost and service discovery

06423 GitHub stars

Use Cases

01Implementing consistent retry and timeout policies for internal service communication

02Configuring health probes for container orchestrators like Kubernetes in an Aspire environment

03Standardizing observability and telemetry across multiple microservices in a .NET solution

Key Features

01Pre-configured HTTP resilience handlers with retries and circuit breakers

02Centralized OpenTelemetry configuration for unified logging, tracing, and metrics

03Automated ServiceDefaults project scaffolding for .NET Aspire

04Standardized health check endpoints for liveness and readiness probes

05Seamless integration with Aspire AppHost and service discovery

06423 GitHub stars

Use Cases

01Implementing consistent retry and timeout policies for internal service communication

02Configuring health probes for container orchestrators like Kubernetes in an Aspire environment

03Standardizing observability and telemetry across multiple microservices in a .NET solution