NLog
NLog - Advanced and Structured Logging for Various .NET Platforms (by nlog)
Log4Net
Apache Log4net is a versatile, feature-rich, efficient logging API and backend for .NET (by apache)
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| NLog | Log4Net | |
|---|---|---|
| 20 | 1 | |
| 6,160 | 816 | |
| 0.8% | 2.1% | |
| 8.9 | 7.9 | |
| 10 days ago | 2 days ago | |
| C# | C# | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
NLog
Posts with mentions or reviews of NLog.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-28.
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Help with matching Serilog with Regex
What is it you're trying to accomplish? Either this is a regular expression problem (not really dotnet related) or you should try using structured logging, with a provider and sink that support it so you don't have to use regular expressions.
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Logging in ASP.NET
NLog
- Use structured logging instead of string interpolation
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Best approach for logging in ASP.NET
Log4Net does not get that much attention any more. From my understanding it served as an alternative for Log4J, but today better and more modern solutions have been created. I migrated a codebase over to .NET Core a couple of years ago, and it seemed that Log4net had issues running on Linux because of kernel calls inside their codebase. If you look at the version history on NuGet, it had just 3 patch releases last year. As an alternative, I would suggest to check out NLog.
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Logging in your API
C# -> Built in Logger, Log4Net, Serilog, NLog, e.t.c.
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Propper Logging in Unity
I would like to use a proper logger like https://github.com/nlog/nlog
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Powershell logging module
I'm going to look at psframework mentioned elsewhere, but i make use of .NET NLog https://nlog-project.org/. it's not terribly hard to wire up, and is pretty feature rich.
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How to implement custom logger with compatible with Nlog?
have a look at this https://github.com/nlog/nlog/wiki/Context you dont want to make your own logger 99% of them time
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Log literally everything a PS1 script is doing?
For a more structured log file*) layout, you could use something like NLog with a PS wrapper.
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How to Send Bulk Log Email
NLog is another option here, with the buffering wrapper around an email target.
Log4Net
Posts with mentions or reviews of Log4Net.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
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Architecture/design
If you google common nuget libs you’ll get a good idea. Most successful packages have grown pretty large and will exemplify good project architecture. https://github.com/apache/logging-log4net
What are some alternatives?
When comparing NLog and Log4Net you can also consider the following projects:
Serilog - Simple .NET logging with fully-structured events
ELMAH - Error Logging Modules & Handlers for ASP.NET
Semantic Logging Application Block (SLAB) - Supporting semantic/structured logging for .NET
Sentry - Sentry SDK for .NET
elmah.io - ELMAH error logger for sending errors to elmah.io.
Logary - Logs and metrics are one! Professional logging, metrics and analytics for your apps.
ZeroLog - A high-performance, zero-allocation .NET logging library.