Event IDs Missing

[vickityvik]

Does Serilog not support Event IDs? I am trying to get an Event Id to display when sending logs to the console or a file. I do see logs in the Console and in files, but I am not seeing any Event IDs.

Using:
Serilog.AspNetCore - v2.1.0
Serilog.Sinks.Console - v3.1.1

Here's what I am attempting to get:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/logging/?tabs=aspnetcore2x#log-event-id

Here's an example of what I am doing:

_logger.LogInformation(ApiLoggingEvents.GetItemFound, "Found Organization {id}.", id);

The output is:

[11:50:08 INF] Found Organization 5a09f468d955d272044adab6.

Here's how it's configured:

        public static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Log.Logger = new LoggerConfiguration()
                .MinimumLevel.Debug()
                .MinimumLevel.Override("Microsoft", LogEventLevel.Information)
                .Enrich.FromLogContext()
                .WriteTo.Console()
                .CreateLogger();
            try
            {
                Log.Information("Starting API host...");
                BuildWebHost(args).Run();
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Log.Fatal(ex, "Host terminated unexpectedly");
            }
            finally
            {
                Log.CloseAndFlush();
            }
        }

        public static IWebHost BuildWebHost(string[] args) =>
            WebHost.CreateDefaultBuilder(args)
                .UseKestrel()
                .UseContentRoot(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory())
                .UseSerilog()
                .UseStartup<Startup>()
                .Build();
    }

[nblumhardt]

Hi! Yes, the event id is being collected - you'll see it if you format the event as JSON, or if you send the data to a structured log collector like Seq or Elasticsearch.

To get it to show in the console output, you'll need to customize the output template to include {EventId} or {Properties} (shown here):

.WriteTo.Console(outputTemplate:
  "[{Timestamp:HH:mm:ss} {Level:u3}] {Message,30:lj} {Properties:j}{NewLine}{Exception}")

[vickityvik]

@nblumhardt Great! Is this documented somewhere? :)

[nblumhardt]

Thanks for the follow-up! I guess it is, now ;-) .. Cheers!