diff --git a/docker-dev/Dockerfile b/docker-dev/Dockerfile
index e7c068977..cb846ebaf 100644
--- a/docker-dev/Dockerfile
+++ b/docker-dev/Dockerfile
@@ -12,8 +12,16 @@ FROM --platform=linux/amd64 mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/sdk:10.0 AS build
 WORKDIR /src
 COPY . .
 RUN dotnet restore ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.slnx
+# Commit stamp (#893). .dockerignore keeps .git/ out of the build context, so SourceLink has no
+# repository to read and the informational version would be a bare "1.0.0". The compose `build.args`
+# (fed by docker-dev/compose.sh from the host's `git rev-parse HEAD`, plus "-dirty" for an uncommitted
+# tree) hand it to the SDK as SourceRevisionId, which yields "1.0.0+<sha>" in
+# AssemblyInformationalVersion (and so Telemetry's service.version). Left empty, the build still
+# succeeds as "1.0.0". Declared after restore so a new commit does not bust the restore layer.
+ARG SOURCE_REVISION=
 RUN dotnet publish src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Host/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Host.csproj \
-        -c Release -o /app --no-restore
+        -c Release -o /app --no-restore \
+        ${SOURCE_REVISION:+-p:SourceRevisionId=${SOURCE_REVISION}}
 
 FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspnet:10.0 AS runtime
 WORKDIR /app
diff --git a/docker-dev/README.md b/docker-dev/README.md
index cae3aeaf4..2ed7059d9 100644
--- a/docker-dev/README.md
+++ b/docker-dev/README.md
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ The DriverHost actor doesn't spawn drivers from raw DriverInstance rows on its o
 
 ```bash
 # from the repo root
-docker compose -f docker-dev/docker-compose.yml up -d --build
+docker-dev/compose.sh up -d --build
 
 # the one-shot migrator + cluster-seed bootstrap the DB; watch the seed finish:
 docker compose -f docker-dev/docker-compose.yml logs -f cluster-seed   # ^C once it prints "[cluster-seed] done."
@@ -96,6 +96,8 @@ open http://localhost:9200                 # Admin UI (Traefik → central-1 or
 open http://localhost:8089                 # Traefik dashboard
 ```
 
+`docker-dev/compose.sh` is `docker compose -f docker-dev/docker-compose.yml "$@"` with `SOURCE_REVISION` exported from `git rev-parse HEAD` (suffixed `-dirty` for an uncommitted tree; an explicit `SOURCE_REVISION=...` wins). `.git/` stays out of the build context (`.dockerignore`), so that build arg is the only way the in-image publish learns the commit: with it the Host stamps `1.0.0+<sha>` as its informational version (Telemetry's `service.version`); a plain `docker compose ... --build` still works and stamps a bare `1.0.0` (#893). Check a built image with `docker run --rm --entrypoint sh otopcua-host:dev -c "grep -ao '1\.0\.0[+0-9a-f-]*' OtOpcUa.Host.dll"`.
+
 The first build takes a few minutes (.NET SDK image + restore + publish). **No manual schema step is needed** — on a fresh SQL volume the one-shot `migrator` service applies the EF migrations (the host nodes deliberately don't auto-migrate, since production owns schema changes), then `cluster-seed` populates the cluster/namespace/driver rows. `cluster-seed` and the host nodes wait for the migrator via `service_completed_successfully`, so nothing races an in-progress migration. A plain `docker compose ... up -d` on an existing volume is a fast no-op for both — the named SQL volume keeps the schema + rows across restarts; only `down -v` wipes them, after which the next `up` re-migrates + re-seeds automatically.
 
 ## Auth (dev only)
diff --git a/docker-dev/compose.sh b/docker-dev/compose.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..0c8c136a6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker-dev/compose.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# docker compose wrapper for the docker-dev rig that stamps the git commit into the images (#893).
+#
+# .dockerignore keeps .git/ out of the build context, so the in-image `dotnet publish` cannot read the
+# commit itself and AssemblyInformationalVersion would be a bare "1.0.0". This exports SOURCE_REVISION
+# (git rev-parse HEAD, suffixed "-dirty" for an uncommitted tree) for the compose `build.args`, which
+# the Dockerfile hands to the SDK as SourceRevisionId -> "1.0.0+<sha>". An explicit SOURCE_REVISION in
+# the environment wins; outside a git checkout it stays empty and the images stamp a bare "1.0.0".
+#
+# Usage (any docker compose arguments; the base compose file is always passed first):
+#   docker-dev/compose.sh up -d --build
+#   docker-dev/compose.sh -f docker-dev/docker-compose.questdb.yml up -d --build central-1 central-2
+#   docker-dev/compose.sh build central-1
+#
+set -euo pipefail
+
+SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
+REPO_ROOT="$(cd "$SCRIPT_DIR/.." && pwd)"
+
+SOURCE_REVISION="${SOURCE_REVISION:-}"
+if [ -z "$SOURCE_REVISION" ] && git -C "$REPO_ROOT" rev-parse --git-dir >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    SOURCE_REVISION="$(git -C "$REPO_ROOT" rev-parse HEAD)"
+    if [ -n "$(git -C "$REPO_ROOT" status --porcelain --untracked-files=no)" ]; then
+        SOURCE_REVISION="${SOURCE_REVISION}-dirty"
+    fi
+fi
+export SOURCE_REVISION
+echo "Source revision: ${SOURCE_REVISION:-<none>}" >&2
+
+exec docker compose -f "$SCRIPT_DIR/docker-compose.yml" "$@"
diff --git a/docker-dev/docker-compose.yml b/docker-dev/docker-compose.yml
index d22fe517d..262ad4b06 100644
--- a/docker-dev/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-dev/docker-compose.yml
@@ -113,7 +113,9 @@
 # exercises.
 #
 # Usage:
-#   docker compose -f docker-dev/docker-compose.yml up -d --build
+#   docker-dev/compose.sh up -d --build    # = docker compose -f docker-dev/docker-compose.yml ..., plus
+#                                          #   SOURCE_REVISION=<git sha> so the images stamp the commit (#893)
+#   docker compose -f docker-dev/docker-compose.yml up -d --build    # also works; images stamp a bare 1.0.0
 #   open http://localhost:9200             # central Blazor admin UI
 #   open http://localhost:8089             # Traefik dashboard (8080 is the sister scadalink stack)
 #
@@ -250,6 +252,9 @@ services:
       context: ..
       dockerfile: docker-dev/Dockerfile
       target: migrator
+      args:
+        # Commit stamp for the image's informational version (#893); docker-dev/compose.sh exports it.
+        SOURCE_REVISION: ${SOURCE_REVISION:-}
     image: otopcua-migrator:dev
     depends_on:
       sql:
@@ -291,6 +296,9 @@ services:
       context: ..
       dockerfile: docker-dev/Dockerfile
       target: runtime
+      args:
+        # Commit stamp for the image's informational version (#893); docker-dev/compose.sh exports it.
+        SOURCE_REVISION: ${SOURCE_REVISION:-}
     image: otopcua-host:dev
     # Per-node memory bounds. The full single-mesh stack (6 host nodes) OOM-killed
     # central-1 on a loaded host. Each host node measured ~357 MiB idle-solo and