Hangfire.Dashboard.JobLogs

Show job logs on the dashboard.

The project takes advantage of the integration with NLog thanks to NLog.HangfireJobLogsTarget.

Note: the project is really simple but it is a good starting point (in my opinion).

Installation

Hangfire.Dashboard.JobLogs is available as a NuGet package. You can install it using the NuGet Package Console window:

PM> Install-Package Bonura.Hangfire.Dashboard.JobLogs

Configuration

NLog configuration with HangfireJobLogs target and layout with ${hangfire-decorator} (mandatory).

"NLog": {
  "extensions": [
    {
      "assembly": "NLog.HangfireJobLogsTarget"
    }
  ],
  "default-wrapper": {
    "type": "AsyncWrapper",
    "overflowAction": "Block"
  },
  "targets": {
    "hangfire_dashboard": {
      "layout": "${longdate}|${level:uppercase=true}|${logger}|${message}|${exception:format=toString}${hangfire-decorator}",
      "type": "HangfireJobLogs"
    }
  },
  "rules": {
    "hangfire": {
      "logger": "Sample.Jobs.*",
      "minLevel": "Info",
      "writeTo": "hangfire_dashboard"
    }
  }
}

Services configuration:

// Add hangfire context services
builder.Services.AddHangfirePerformContextAccessor();

// Add Hangfire services.
builder.Services.AddHangfire((serviceProvider, config) =>
{
    // Add filter to handle PerformContextAccessor
    config.UsePerformContextAccessorFilter(serviceProvider);
    // Add a storage
    config.UseInMemoryStorage();
    // Add dashboard jobLogs
    config.UseDashboardJobLogs();
});

// Add the processing server as IHostedService
builder.Services.AddHangfireServer();

Job using ILogger (Microsoft.Extensions.Logging):

public class SimpleJob
{
    private ILogger<SimpleJob> _logger;

    public SimpleJob(ILogger<SimpleJob> logger)
    {
        _logger = logger;
    }

    public async Task DoJobAsync()
    {
        _logger.LogInformation("Log message");
        await Task.CompletedTask;
    }
}

How it works

Basically, a log message produced by a hangfire job is captured by NLog NLog.HangfireJobLogsTarget. Thanks to ${hangfire-decorator} and PerformContextAccessor log messages are sent to Hangfire storage. Finally, log messages are shown on the detail page thanks to a simple JobDetailsRenderer.

See sample project:

https://github.com/meriturva/Hangfire.Dashboard.JobLogs/tree/main/Sample