Serilog VS serilog-sinks-console

Compare Serilog vs serilog-sinks-console and see what are their differences.

Serilog

Simple .NET logging with fully-structured events (by serilog)

serilog-sinks-console

Write log events to System.Console as text or JSON, with ANSI theme support (by serilog)
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Serilog serilog-sinks-console
55 4
6,926 225
1.3% 1.3%
7.0 5.9
14 days ago about 1 month ago
C# C#
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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Serilog

Posts with mentions or reviews of Serilog. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-06.

serilog-sinks-console

Posts with mentions or reviews of serilog-sinks-console. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-19.
  • SeriLog color themes
    3 projects | dev.to | 19 Feb 2023
    The following built-in themes are available
  • Serilog - Printing logs on multiple lines
    1 project | /r/csharp | 10 May 2022
    This is best handled as a display issue. It will depend on how you are configuring serilog. Where are you seeing these messages - on a console? Are you using a console logger such as https://github.com/serilog/serilog-sinks-console
  • Logging in ASP.NET Core 5 using Serilog
    8 projects | dev.to | 23 Aug 2021
    Serilog.Sinks.Console – To write log events to the Windows Console or an ANSI terminal via standard output
  • Basic MQTT with C#
    5 projects | dev.to | 4 Jul 2021
    MQTTNet MQTTnet.Extensions.ManagedClient Serilog Serilog.Sinks.Console Newtonsoft.Json

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Serilog and serilog-sinks-console you can also consider the following projects:

NLog - NLog - Advanced and Structured Logging for Various .NET Platforms

MQTTnet - MQTTnet is a high performance .NET library for MQTT based communication. It provides a MQTT client and a MQTT server (broker). The implementation is based on the documentation from http://mqtt.org/.

Log4Net - Apache Log4net is a versatile, feature-rich, efficient logging API and backend for .NET

Serilog.Sinks.WinForms - Print Serilog logs from anywhere in you application into textbox or datagridview. windows forms

ELMAH - Error Logging Modules & Handlers for ASP.NET

serilog-ui - Simple Serilog log viewer UI for several sinks.

Sentry - Sentry SDK for .NET

serilog-sinks-email - A Serilog sink that writes events to SMTP email

opentelemetry-specification - Specifications for OpenTelemetry

serilog-sinks-file - Write Serilog events to files in text and JSON formats, optionally rolling on time or size

Semantic Logging Application Block (SLAB) - Supporting semantic/structured logging for .NET

serilog-sinks-mssqlserver - A Serilog sink that writes events to Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL