Serilog.Samples.WebApp

ASP.NET Core Web App

Key aspects

• ASP.NET Core Web App
• Uses Serilog.AspNetCore to get information about ASP.NET's internal operations written to the same Serilog sinks as your application events.
• Uses Serilog.Sinks.ApplicationInsights to write events to Microsoft Application Insights.

Setup

1. Create ASP.NET Core Web App:

   dotnet new webapp --name Serilog.Samples.WebApp

2. Add Serilog packages:

   dotnet add package Serilog.AspNetCore
   dotnet add package Serilog.Sinks.ApplicationInsights

3. Configure web host to UseSerilog (reference):

   .UseSerilog((hostingContext, services, loggerConfiguration) => loggerConfiguration
       .Enrich.FromLogContext()
       .WriteTo.File(new CompactJsonFormatter(), "logs\\myapp.json", rollingInterval: RollingInterval.Day)
       .WriteTo.Console()
       .WriteTo.ApplicationInsights(new TelemetryClient(new TelemetryConfiguration("<ikey>")), new TraceTelemetryConverter()));

4. Create some log output messages (reference).

5. Run the application:

   dotnet run