SeriLog

• Serilog provides diagnostic logging to files, the console, and elsewhere

Installation - Nuget

• SeriLog: Basic configurations of SeriLog

• Sinks: Which helps in storing the logs into specific type of storage systems

  • Serilog.Sinks.Console
  • Serilog.Sinks.ColoredConsole
  • Serilog.Sinks.File
  • Serilog.Sinks.RollingFile

• Basic Settings

var template = "{Timestamp:yyyy-MMM-dd HH:mm::ss} [{Level}] {Message}{NewLine}{Exception}";
var _logger = new LoggerConfiguration()
                            .WriteTo.Console()
                            .WriteTo.ColoredConsole(Serilog.Events.LogEventLevel.Verbose, outputTemplate: template)
                            .WriteTo.File("log.txt")
                            .WriteTo.RollingFile("rollinglogfile.txt", retainedFileCountLimit: 2)
                            .CreateLogger();

Log.Logger = _logger;
Log.Logger.Information("Log Message");

Logging Structured Data

• Scalar Data: Boolean, Int (byte <=> decimal), String, DateTime, Others (GUID, URI, nullables)
• Collections, Objects, Dictionary<key, value> (key must be Scalar),