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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
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serilog-sinks-file
Write Serilog events to files in text and JSON formats, optionally rolling on time or size
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SaaSHub
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Serilog is one of the most famous logging libraries for .NET applications. As per NuGet, the total downloads of this library already crossed 175M which clearly shows the popularity of this library among .NET developers. It is easy to set up and provides a huge collection of powerful features. It is portable between different .NET platforms and also provides a clean API. It has many extension points that allow developers to plug their custom code into it and extend the functionality of this cool library even further. In this tutorial, I will show you how to set up this library and start using it within minutes. I will also cover how you can log output in text and JSON format and at the end of this tutorial, I will show you how you can log messages to text based log files.
Serilog is a structural logging library for.NET applications that can be used for adding some cool diagnostic features to your application. This library provides a huge collection of new logging related features that are not available in the .NET built-in logging framework. It allows developers to log their messages to hundreds of different destinations including files, the console, on-premises, and cloud-based log servers, databases, and message queues. It also has native support of producing log output in plain text and JSON formats. It supports rich integration with .NET Core including ASP.NET Core. You can read the full list of features available here.
Serilog.Sinks.Console – To write log events to the Windows Console or an ANSI terminal via standard output
So far, I was only using the basic .NET logging infrastructure so it is now time to configure the Serilog library. Serilog can be downloaded and installed as a NuGet package and because I will be using Serilog in ASP.NET Core application in this tutorial so I will also install Serilog.AspNetCore package. I will also install Serilog.Sinks.File sink from Nuget as I want to show you how to log events to files later in this tutorial. You can download and install all of these packages using the NuGet Package Manager available in Visual Studio.
Serilog.Sinks.Email – To send log events by SMTP email
Serilog.Sinks.MSSqlServer – To write log events to Microsoft SQL Server
The first thing you need to do is to remove the built-in .NET logging configuration from the appsettings.json file. This is because the Serilog uses a simple C# API to configure logging. If you still want to use an external appsettings.json file to configure Serilog then you have to download and use Serilog.Settings.AppSettings (.NET Framework) or Serilog.Settings.Configuration (.NET Core) packages. For now, I will configure Serilog using C# code so I am commenting on the following “Logging” section from the project appsettings.json file.