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Andrew Lock
Logging

  1. Writing logs to Elasticsearch with Fluentd using Serilog in ASP.NET Core

    For apps running in Kubernetes, it's particularly important to be storing log messages in a central location. I'd argue that this is important for all apps, whether or not you're using Kubernetes or docker, but the ephemeral nature of pods and containers make the latter cases particularly important. If you're…
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  2. Suppressing the startup and shutdown messages in ASP.NET Core

    In this post, I show how you can disable the startup message shown in the console when you run an ASP.NET Core application. This extra text can mess up your logs if you're using a collector that reads from the console, so it can be useful to disable in…
    on ASP.NET Core 2.1 ASP.NET Core ASP.NET Core 1.1 Logging Docker HostBuilder - Comments

  3. Using anonymous types and tuples to attach correlation IDs to scope state with Serilog and Seq in ASP.NET Core

    In my last post I gave an introduction to structured logging, and described how you can use scopes to add additional key-value pairs to log messages. Unfortunately, the syntax for key-value pairs using ILogger.BeginScope() can be a bit verbose, so I showed an extension method you can use to…
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  4. Creating an extension method for attaching key-value pairs to scope state using ASP.NET Core

    This is the first in a short series of posts exploring the process I went through to make working with scopes a little nicer in ASP.NET Core (and Serilog / Seq). In this post I'll create an extension method for logging a single key-value pair as a scope. In the…
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  5. How to include scopes when logging exceptions in ASP.NET Core

    This post describes how to work around an issue I ran into when logging exceptions that occur inside a scope block in ASP.NET Core. I'll provide a brief background on logging in ASP.NET Core, structured logging, and the concept of scopes. Then I'll show how exceptions can cause…
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  6. Creating a rolling file logging provider for ASP.NET Core 2.0

    ASP.NET Core includes a logging abstraction that makes writing logs to multiple locations easy. All of the first-party libraries that make up ASP.NET Core and EF Core use this abstraction, and the vast majority of libraries written for ASP.NET Core will too. That means its easy to…
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