New Observability & Debugging Capabilities for Azure Container Apps

Azure Container Apps gives you a strong foundation for monitoring and debugging, with built-in features that give you a holistic view of your container app’s health throughout its application lifecycle. As applications grow, developers need even deeper visibility and faster ways to troubleshoot issues.

That’s why we’re excited to announce new observability and debugging features.

These features will help you further monitor your environment and identify root causes faster.

Generally Available: OpenTelemetry agent in Azure Container Apps

OpenTelemetry agent in Azure Container Apps is now generally available. This feature enables you to use open-source standards to send your app’s data without setting up the OpenTelemetry collector yourself. You can use the managed agent to choose where to send logs, metrics, and traces.

Once enabled, the agent runs in your Container Apps environment and automatically collects and exports telemetry data. You can send data to Azure Monitor Application Insights (logs, traces), Datadog (metrics, logs, traces), or any generic OTLP-configured endpoint (logs, metrics, traces). You can configure and manage the agent today using the Azure portal, ARM templates, Bicep, Terraform, or the Azure CLI.

To learn more, visit https://aka.ms/aca/otel

Generally Available: Aspire Dashboard in Azure Container Apps

Azure Container Apps .NET 8’s Aspire dashboard is now generally available. Access live data about your project and containers in the cloud to evaluate the performance of your applications and debug errors with comprehensive logs, metrics, traces, and more.

In addition, we now support the newest version of the Aspire dashboard (9.2) in Azure Container Apps! Rollout has begun, with global availability expected in the coming weeks. This update includes a new way to visualize your app’s resources, the ability to pause/resume telemetry, and more. Check out the Aspire 9.2 release notes for details.

To learn more about the Aspire dashboard on Azure Container Apps, visit https://aka.ms/aca/dashboard

Azure SRE Agent

We are excited to be part of the public preview of the Azure SRE Agent! The Azure SRE Agent is an AI-powered tool that helps cloud developers reduce the cost of operations while improving uptime. It can respond to production alerts, autonomously mitigate issues, and determine root cause analysis (RCA) with minimal developer and operator intervention. Azure SRE Agent continuously monitors application health and performance for production applications on Azure, to build context and provide insights for faster troubleshooting. By working with SWE agent capabilities in GitHub Copilot, the SRE agent can proactively identify application issues and rapidly drive to resolution with development teams and agent services.

The public preview is expected to roll out in CY25 H1. To learn more about Azure SRE Agent, visit https://aka.ms/Build25/blog/SREAgent

New Diagnose and Solve Dashboard for Container App Environments

Enhance your troubleshooting experience with new dashboards and detectors on the Diagnose and Solve blade for Azure Container Apps. The new Container App Environment Health dashboard provides a comprehensive overview of your apps, jobs, replicas, node count, and CPU usage over time. With these insights, you can effectively manage the health, performance, and resource utilization of your apps and jobs. The dashboard is available on your Container App Environment’s Diagnose & Solve blade, under the “Container App Environment Health” troubleshooting category.

The new Container App detectors enable you to diagnose and resolve issues such as container create failures, container exit events, health probe failures, image pull failures, KEDA scaler failures, storage mount failures, incorrect target port settings, and more. The new detectors are available on your Container App Diagnose & Solve blade, under the “Availability and Performance” troubleshooting category.

To learn more, look through the troubleshooting categories in Microsoft Learn at https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/container-apps/troubleshoot-container-create-failures .

New Container App Queries in Log Analytics

We’ve added a new set of Kusto queries for Azure Container App users, now available in the Query Hub. These queries can help you identify common failure patterns and issues across your apps. Examples include most frequent error messages, failed revision provisions, insufficient quota, and more.

You can see these queries by navigating to the Logs blade and filtering the queries by resource type: Container Apps.

To learn more, visit the log monitoring document in Microsoft Learn.

What else is going on with Azure Container Apps at Build 2025?

There’s a lot happening at Build 2025! Azure Container Apps has numerous sessions and other features being launched. For a complete overview, check out our https://aka.ms/aca/whats-new-blog-build-2025.

Wrap Up

Your feedback is incredibly important to us, so after exploring the new observability features, let us know your thoughts! If there's a feature that you'd love to see next, we encourage you to up-vote it. To keep an eye on what's coming up, don't forget to check out our roadmap.

We’re also posting monthly updates on our GitHub! You can see the latest announcement and past announcements here.