PlainConsoleLoggerFormatter

A basic alternative console logger formatter for ASP.NET 5.0.

The main differences from the default Microsoft's console formatter are:

• no support for colors
• better log levels mapping (TRACE, DEBUG, INFO, WARN, ERROR and CRIT), instead of weird abbreviations
• log messages are by default on a single line
• exceptions start on a new line and are indented with 4 characters
• the class name is simplified by removing the namespace

Note: custom console formatters were introduced with ASP.NET 5.0. For ASP.NET Core 2/3 refer to the previous versions of this package, which were published as PlainConsoleLogger.

Example message

2018-07-30T22:29:32 INFO [Program] Text message here

The date is in UTC ISO 8601 format.

Usage

• Install with NuGet
• Register the logger through the ILoggingBuilder:

private static void ConfigureLogging(HostBuilderContext hostContext, ILoggingBuilder logging)
{
    logging.AddConsoleFormatter<PlainConsoleFormatter, PlainConsoleFormatterOptions>();
    logging.AddConsole(options => options.FormatterName = nameof(PlainConsoleFormatter));
}