Writes NLog messages to MongoDB.
The NLog.Mongo library is available on nuget.org via package name NLog.Mongo.
To install NLog.Mongo, run the following command in the Package Manager Console
PM> Install-Package NLog.Mongo
More information about NuGet package avaliable at https://nuget.org/packages/NLog.Mongo
<extensions>
<add assembly="NLog.Mongo"/>
</extensions>
<targets>
<target xsi:type="Mongo"
name="String"
connectionName="String"
connectionString="String"
collectionName="String"
cappedCollectionSize="Long"
cappedCollectionMaxItems="Long"
databaseName="String"
includeDefaults="Boolean">
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<field name="String" layout="Layout" bsonType="Boolean|DateTime|Double|Int32|Int64|String" />
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<property name="String" layout="Layout" bsonType="Boolean|DateTime|Double|Int32|Int64|String" />
</target>
</targets>name - Name of the target.
connectionName - The name of the connection string to get from the config file.
connectionString - Connection string. When provided, it overrides the values specified in connectionName.
databaseName - The name of the database, overrides connection string database.
collectionName - The name of the MongoDB collection to write logs to.
cappedCollectionSize - If the collection doesn't exist, it will be create as a capped collection with this max size.
cappedCollectionMaxItems - If the collection doesn't exist, it will be create as a capped collection with this max number of items. cappedCollectionSize must also be set when using this setting.
includeDefaults - Specifies if the default document is created when writing to the collection. Defaults to true.
field - Specifies a root level document field. There can be multiple fields specified.
property - Specifies a dictionary property on the Properties field. There can be multiple properties specified.
includeEventProperties - Specifies if LogEventInfo Properties should be automatically included. Defaults to true.
<target xsi:type="Mongo"
name="mongoDefault"
connectionString="mongodb://localhost/Logging"
collectionName="DefaultLog"
cappedCollectionSize="26214400">
<property name="ThreadID" layout="${threadid}" bsonType="Int32" />
<property name="ThreadName" layout="${threadname}" />
<property name="ProcessID" layout="${processid}" bsonType="Int32" />
<property name="ProcessName" layout="${processname:fullName=true}" />
<property name="UserName" layout="${windows-identity}" />
</target>{
"_id" : ObjectId("5184219b545eb455aca34390"),
"Date" : ISODate("2013-05-03T20:44:11Z"),
"Level" : "Error",
"Logger" : "NLog.Mongo.ConsoleTest.Program",
"Message" : "Error reading file 'blah.txt'.",
"Exception" : {
"Message" : "Could not find file 'C:\\Projects\\github\\NLog.Mongo\\Source\\NLog.Mongo.ConsoleTest\\bin\\Debug\\blah.txt'.",
"Text" : "System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not find file 'C:\\Projects\\github\\NLog.Mongo\\Source\\NLog.Mongo.ConsoleTest\\bin\\Debug\\blah.txt' ...",
"Type" : "System.IO.FileNotFoundException",
"Source" : "mscorlib",
"MethodName" : "WinIOError",
"ModuleName" : "mscorlib",
"ModuleVersion" : "4.0.0.0"
},
"Properties" : {
"ThreadID" : 10,
"ProcessID" : 21932,
"ProcessName" : "C:\\Projects\\github\\NLog.Mongo\\Source\\NLog.Mongo.ConsoleTest\\bin\\Debug\\NLog.Mongo.ConsoleTest.exe",
"UserName" : "pwelter",
"Test" : "ErrorWrite",
"CallerMemberName" : "Main",
"CallerFilePath" : "c:\\Projects\\github\\NLog.Mongo\\Source\\NLog.Mongo.ConsoleTest\\Program.cs",
"CallerLineNumber" : "43"
}
}<target xsi:type="Mongo"
name="mongoCustom"
includeDefaults="false"
connectionString="mongodb://localhost"
collectionName="CustomLog"
databaseName="Logging"
cappedCollectionSize="26214400">
<field name="Date" layout="${date}" bsonType="DateTime" />
<field name="Level" layout="${level}"/>
<field name="Message" layout="${message}" />
<field name="Logger" layout="${logger}"/>
<field name="Exception" layout="${exception:format=tostring}" />
<field name="ThreadID" layout="${threadid}" bsonType="Int32" />
<field name="ThreadName" layout="${threadname}" />
<field name="ProcessID" layout="${processid}" bsonType="Int32" />
<field name="ProcessName" layout="${processname:fullName=true}" />
<field name="UserName" layout="${windows-identity}" />
</target>{
"_id" : ObjectId("5187abc2545eb467ecce9184"),
"Date" : ISODate("2015-02-02T17:31:20.728Z"),
"Level" : "Debug",
"Message" : "Sample debug message",
"Logger" : "NLog.Mongo.ConsoleTest.Program",
"ThreadID" : 9,
"ProcessID" : 26604,
"ProcessName" : "C:\\Projects\\github\\NLog.Mongo\\Source\\NLog.Mongo.ConsoleTest\\bin\\Debug\\v4.5\\NLog.Mongo.ConsoleTest.exe",
"UserName" : "pwelter"
}<target xsi:type="Mongo"
name="mongoCustomJsonProperties"
includeEventProperties="false"
connectionString="mongodb://localhost"
collectionName="CustomLog"
databaseName="Logging"
cappedCollectionSize="26214400">
<field name="Properties" bsonType="Object">
<layout type="JsonLayout" includeAllProperties="true" includeMdlc="true" maxRecursionLimit="10">
<attribute name="ThreadID" layout="${threadid}" encode="false" />
<attribute name="ProcessID" layout="${processid}" encode="false" />
<attribute name="ProcessName" layout="${processname:fullName=false}" />
</layout>
</field>
</target>{
"_id" : ObjectId("5184219b545eb455aca34390"),
"Date" : ISODate("2013-05-03T20:44:11Z"),
"Level" : "Error",
"Logger" : "NLog.Mongo.ConsoleTest.Program",
"Message" : "Error reading file 'blah.txt'.",
"Exception" : {
"Message" : "Could not find file 'C:\\Projects\\github\\NLog.Mongo\\Source\\NLog.Mongo.ConsoleTest\\bin\\Debug\\blah.txt'.",
"Text" : "System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not find file 'C:\\Projects\\github\\NLog.Mongo\\Source\\NLog.Mongo.ConsoleTest\\bin\\Debug\\blah.txt' ...",
"Type" : "System.IO.FileNotFoundException",
"Source" : "mscorlib",
"MethodName" : "WinIOError",
"ModuleName" : "mscorlib",
"ModuleVersion" : "4.0.0.0"
},
"Properties" : {
"ThreadID" : 10,
"ProcessID" : 21932,
"ProcessName" : "NLog.Mongo.ConsoleTest.exe",
"Product": { "Name": "Foo", "Id": 42 }
}
}