DPI 2026.10.10.507

DPI

Dependency Inventory .NET Tool - Inventories dependencies and reports to Azure Log Analytics

You can get an introduction to the tool, in the blog post: Introducing DPI - A DevOps tool to inspect dependencies and report to Azure Log Analytics

Obtain

dotnet tool install -g dpi

Commands

Use -h / --help to get the current list of available commands and options.

dpi --help

nuget

The NuGet branch of commands have recursively from given path inventories packages present in

• csproj (project assets if restored)
• packages.config
• .NET Tool manifests
• Cake build script files
• C# file-based apps (*.cs files that start with #!/usr/bin/env dotnet, inventorying #:sdk and #:package; omitted #:sdk versions are taken from msbuild-sdks in global.json)

analyze

nuget analyze command inventories and outputs result to console or file.

# Output as table (default)
dpi nuget --output table analyze

# Output as JSON
dpi nuget --output json analyze

# Output as Markdown
dpi nuget --output markdown analyze

# Save output to file
dpi nuget --output json --file dependencies.json analyze

report

nuget report analyzes and reports the result to Azure Log Analytics.

export NuGetReportSettings_WorkspaceId=<workspaceid>

export NuGetReportSettings_SharedKey=<sharedkey>

# Output as table (default)
dpi nuget --output table report

# Output as JSON
dpi nuget --output json report

# Output as Markdown
dpi nuget --output markdown report

# Save output to file
dpi nuget --output json --file report.json report