AM.Elasticsearch.TraceListener

3.0 Release Notes

the _type submitted is being changed from Trace to doc in preparation to posting to Elasticsearch 6.x, as _type is being deprecated.

nuget version > then 2.x have this change

1.1 Release Notes

the attribute ElasticSearchIndex is redundant, its value is ignored. Next minor release it will be removed, which will cause a runtime failure at the first usage of the listener

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ElasticSearch TraceListener is a System.Diagnostics based TraceListener which submits trace events and data to ElasticSearch making them viewable with Kibana

Getting Started

Install the package from nuget.org https://www.nuget.org/packages/AM.Elasticsearch.TraceListener/

Install-Package AM.Elasticsearch.TraceListener

edit your app.config/web.config

<system.diagnostics>
    <sharedListeners>
        <add name="estl" 
     type="AM.Elasticsearch.TraceListener.ElasticSearchTraceListener, AM.Elasticsearch.TraceListener" 
     ElasticSearchUri="http://localhost:9200" ElasticSearchTraceIndex="trace" />
    </sharedListeners>
    <trace autoflush="false" indentsize="4">
      <listeners>
        <!--<remove name="Default" />-->
        <add name="estl" />
      </listeners>
    </trace>
<sources>
  <source name="MY-SILLY-TRACESOURCE" switchValue="All">
    <listeners>
      <add name="estl" />
    </listeners>
  </source>
  <source name="System.Net" switchValue="Error">
    <listeners>
      <add name="estl" />
    </listeners>
  </source>
  <source name="System.ServiceModel" switchValue="All">
    <listeners>
      <add name="estl" />
    </listeners>
  </source>
</sources>
</system.diagnostics>

The kibana format of the index is -yyyy-MM-dd-HH

Usage

Trace.Write("sdgsgsgsgsgsgsgsgsgsgsg");

class MyBigFatGreekClass
{
    private static readonly TraceSource _traceSource = new TraceSource("alextrace", SourceLevels.Error);
    public void LoveAndMarriage()
    {
        _traceSource.TraceEvent(TraceEventType.Verbose, 0, "is {0} and all is well", DateTime.UtcNow);
        int x = 0;
        try
        {
            int y = 99999 / x;
        }
        catch(Exception ex)
        {
            _traceSource.TraceData(TraceEventType.Error, 119999911, ex);
        }
    }
    
    public void DeathAndTaxes()
    {
        _traceSource.TraceData(TraceEventType.Warning, 119999911, DateTime.UtcNow);
    }
}

Environmental setup

You need an ElasticSearch host, and likely you want Kibana to view the data

setup your ElasticSearch host

try using docker

see https://elk-docker.readthedocs.io/

$ sudo docker run -p 5601:5601 -p 9200:9200 -p 5044:5044 -it --name elk sebp/elk

Run your traces to generate some data

Elasticsearch and Kibana needs some data to get started with

Configure ElasticSearch and Kibana

Note that trace was used for the index prefix

go the kibana managment page http://192.168.1.1:5601/app/kibana#/management

click index patterns http://192.168.1.1:5601/app/kibana#/management/kibana/indices

click +Add New type in the prefix you used (see above) trace adding a dash

if you have data in ElasticSearch then it will display a Date field, which will be UtcDateTime