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Why Serilog? It is easy to set up, has a clean API, and is portable between recent .NET platforms. The big difference between Serilog and the other frameworks is that it is designed to do structured logging out of the box. Another thing I really like about Serilog is that it can be configured via the appsetting.json file alongside configuring through code. Changing logging configuration without touching the codebase is really helpful, especially in the production environment.
Serilog.AspNetCore nuget package has dependency on Serilog.Settings.Configuration nuget package and it is a Serilog settings provider that reads from Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration sources. The above configuration is equivalent to this:
To see complete SQL Server sink JSON configuration check out this.
If you're using SQL Server, PostgreSQL or MongoDB sinks, I have developed a small log viewer for small projects. It helps a lot, especially in the production environment and you don't need to query the database to view logs.
Source code for this walkthrough could found on the Github.