Logging and Monitoring in ASP.NET Core

Note

This repo has an updated branch that targets .NET 8.

This is the repository with the code associated with this Pluralsight course: https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/logging-monitoring-aspdotnet-core-6

The course (and this repo) demonstrates logging and monitoring within ASP.NET Core 6, including the following features:

• Injection and use of the ILogger<T> interface
• Default providers and configuration within ASP.NET Core 6
• Log levels and their usage
• Categories for log entries
• Filtering log entries with both configuration and code
• Exception Handling and logging
• Scopes
• Event Ids and how to use them
• Techniques for hiding sensitive information
• Semantic logging
• Third party logging libraries (like Serilog and NLog)
• Using third party libraries to write to various destinations (Splunk, Seq, Application Insights)
• Using the LoggerMessage source generator
• Health checks and things that monitor the health checks
• Traceability with OpenTelemetry

Repo URL: https://github.com/dahlsailrunner/logging-monitoring-aspnet6

VS Code Setup

The C# extension is required to use this repo. I have some other settings that you may be curious about and they are described in my VS Code gist.