❔ Configuring ILogger to log to database.
Does this look right to have ILogger configured to log to database? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/805842/how-to-save-logs-into-db
How to save logs into db - Microsoft Q&A
I m running Microsoft ILogger in my asp.net core webapi project. The logs are running perfect and also generating log files but log files are really hard to scan and read.
I want to save the logs into db and then run some query and find out the issues…
I want to save the logs into db and then run some query and find out the issues…
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Also is it anti-pattern to have multiple logging locations?
ApplicationInsights + DB + Serilog + whatever
i would say it's normal to have multiple loggers, but also usually they have different purposes, so for examples you could send information level to a file or to elastic, errors and fatals to a monitoring service, and so on
Ok yeah that’s what I was wondering about
Not technically different logging providers, just destinations.
often called "sinks" but in the context of
Microsoft.Extensions.Logging provider is actually correct
is there a database logger provider that you've found that you can use?
if not, you'll have to write your own, and I'm going to plug myself from the last time I did exactly that, for the purpose of logging to a database
hmm, well, okay, I guess I got rid of it
at one point, I put a bunch of shared logic for that project into a standalone NuGet package, but I think I got rid of that
you can look at this, though, this was one of the two projects that were using that shared lib.GitHub
GitHub - JakenVeina/SeqLoggerProvider: An implementation of ILogger...
An implementation of ILoggerProvider, from the Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions framework, for writing log events to a Seq server. - GitHub - JakenVeina/SeqLoggerProvider: An implementatio...
the other was a database logger, but it was for work, so not on github
we use a serilog sink for elasticsearch
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