Dashboard Functionality in 10

[dewrightca]

In the v8 versioning we had the ability to point the Dashboard from a custom Port to allow us to enable/disable the dashboard being hosted; but it appears in v10 that is lost. It would be great to see those properties exposed again.

My Controller project had 2 web-interfaces; 1) the Orleans Dashboard that let me monitor the state of the grid and 2) my own web-ui controller to allow me to monitor the data being processed and state of those processes.

Is there a way to host the Dashboard like this again?

[ReubenBond]

Hi @dewrightca, if the goal is to enable/disable the dashboard, could you put a guard around the app.MapOrleansDashboard() directive instead? If you need multiple ports, you can accomplish this with ASP.NET using MapWhen like so:

app.MapWhen(context => context.Connection.LocalPort == 8080, app =>
{
    app.UseRouting();
    app.UseEndpoints(endpoints =>
    {
        endpoints.MapOrleansDashboard();
    });
});

// and similar for your non-dashboard endpoints

You can also map the dashboard to a custom prefix.

[dewrightca]

Thank you; the examples didn't help there; but your feedback did help me target my research a bit more.

[itxashancode]

In v10 the dashboard isn’t baked into the silo host any more - you have to pull in the Microsoft.OrleansDashboard package and wire it yourself. The easiest way to get the same enable/disable‑by‑port behaviour is to register the dashboard conditionally in Program.cs (or wherever you build the host) and use the DashboardOptions to set the port.

var builder = WebApplication.CreateBuilder(args);

// your usual Orleans config …
builder.Host.UseOrleans(silo => { /* … */ });

if (builder.Configuration.GetValue<bool>("Dashboard:Enabled"))
{
 // pulls in the dashboard middleware
 builder.Services.AddOrleansDashboard(options =>
 {
 options.Port = builder.Configuration.GetValue<int>("Dashboard:Port"); // e.g. 8080
 // any other options you need
 });
}

var app = builder.Build();

if (builder.Configuration.GetValue<bool>("Dashboard:Enabled"))
{

[dewrightca]

Great example; thank you so much. This helps me a lot.

[itxashancode]

Glad it helped! 😊 Feel free to close the issue if you're all sorted. And a follow would be lovely, always great to connect!