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

   In this post, I describe how to customise the output of the Serilog Console sink so that you can pipe your console output to Elasticsearch using Fluentd.…

   June 20, 2018 in ASP.NET Core DevOps Logging Docker
3. Using anonymous types and tuples to attach correlation IDs to scope state with Serilog and Seq in ASP.NET Core

   In this post I describe two extension methods that make logging scopes as key-value pairs nicer in ASP.NET Core, by using anonymous types and tuples.…

   September 26, 2017 in ASP.NET Core ASP.NET Core 2.0 Logging C#
4. Suppressing the startup and shutdown messages in ASP.NET Core

   In this post I show how to disable the startup messages shown in the console when you run an ASP.NET Core application using WebHostBuilder or HostBuilder.…

   June 12, 2018 in ASP.NET Core 2.1 ASP.NET Core ASP.NET Core 1.1 HostBuilder Logging Docker
5. Logging using DiagnosticSource in ASP.NET Core

   Although ILogger is the most commonly used, there are actually three logging system in ASP.NET Core. In this post I'll show how to use the DiagnosticSource…

   January 31, 2017 in ASP.NET Core Middleware Analysis Package Logging
6. How to include scopes when logging exceptions in ASP.NET Core

   In this post I introduce the concept of scopes in ASP.NET Core, how exceptions can cause you to lose a scope, and how to get round this using a neat trick.…

   September 12, 2017 in ASP.NET Core 2.0 ASP.NET Core Logging
7. Defining custom logging messages with LoggerMessage.Define in ASP.NET Core

   In this post I take a look at one of the helper methods in the ASP.NET Core logging library, and how you can use it to efficiently log messages in your app…

   June 06, 2017 in ASP.NET Core Logging