Custom logging

The program uses Serilog for logging which is a powerful extensible library.

Levels

simple-acme uses the following five log levels:

• Error - Logs fatal or dangerous conditions
• Warning - Logs minor errors and suspicious conditions
• Information - General information about operations
• Debug - Additional information that can be useful for troubleshooting
• Verbose - Full logging for submitting bug reports

Included sinks

• The default sink logs to the console window to provide real time insights.
• The event sink writes to the Windows Event Viewer includes Error, Warning and selected Information messages.
• The disk sink writes rolling log files to the {Client.LogPath}.

Custom sinks

There are many types of output channels called sinks for all kinds of different databases, file formats and services.

Example (Seq)

• Download Serilog.Sinks.PeriodicBatching.dll and Serilog.Sinks.Seq.dll from NuGet. These files can be found here and here, respectively.
• Configure the sink in a file called serilog.json according to the specification here.

Example

The follow piece of code in serilog.json adds the process ID to the output of the file log.

{
  "disk": {
    "WriteTo": [{ 
      "Name": "File",
      "Args": { 
        "outputTemplate": "[{Level:u3}] [PID:{ProcessId}] {Message:lj}{NewLine}{Exception}"
      } 
    }]
  }
}

Arguments

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