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2. Adding Serilog to the ASP.NET Core Generic Host

   In this post I introduce the Serilog.Extensions.Hosting package, discuss why it's necessary, and describe how to use it to add Serilog to a generic host app…

   August 07, 2018 in ASP.NET Core ASP.NET Core 2.1 Logging Generic Host
3. 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
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. 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#
6. Creating an extension method for attaching key-value pairs to scope state using ASP.NET Core

   In this post I describe a small extension method that makes logging scopes as key-value pairs in ASP.NET Core with Serilog and Seq a little nicer.…

   September 19, 2017 in ASP.NET Core ASP.NET Core 2.0 Logging
7. 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