Logging and Monitoring in ASP.NET Core

Tip

This branch has been updated for .NET 8, and uses new ProblemDetails functionality in the API and new LoggerMessage source generators.

This is the repository with the code associated with this Pluralsight course: https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/logging-monitoring-aspdotnet-core-6

The course (and this repo) demonstrates logging and monitoring within ASP.NET Core 6, including the following features:

• Injection and use of the ILogger<T> interface
• Default providers and configuration within ASP.NET Core 6
• Log levels and their usage
• Categories for log entries
• Filtering log entries with both configuration and code
• Exception Handling and logging
• Scopes
• Event Ids and how to use them
• Techniques for hiding sensitive information
• Semantic logging
• Third party logging libraries (like Serilog and NLog)
• Using third party libraries to write to various destinations (Splunk, Seq, Application Insights)
• Using the LoggerMessage source generator
• Health checks and things that monitor the health checks
• Traceability with OpenTelemetry

Repo URL: https://github.com/dahlsailrunner/logging-monitoring-aspnet6

VS Code Setup

The C# extension is required to use this repo. I have some other settings that you may be curious about and they are described in my VS Code gist.