Modern Structured Logging With Serilog and Seq

By Jason Roberts
Make your logs work for you and go beyond unstructured textual logs to create modern log information with rich, structured, queryable log data.
Course info
Rating
(159)
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Jul 11, 2014
Duration
2h 10m
Table of contents
Introduction to Structured Logging
Module Overview 2m Why Structured Logging? 3m Introducing Serilog 3m Introducing Seq 1m Module Summary 1m
Serilog Fundamentals
Module Overview 2m Getting Started With Serilog 5m Logging to a Single Text File 7m Logging to Multiple Rolling Text Files 4m Logging Structured Data 5m Simple Scalar Values 3m Collections and Objects 4m Destructured Objects 3m Provided Logging Sinks 2m Writing and Querying Structured Log Data With RavenDB 8m Module Summary 2m
Serilog - Beyond the Fundamentals
Module Overview 3m Message Templates and Formatting 3m Different Logging Levels 4m Configuring Minimum Logging Severity Levels 4m Sink Specific Minimum Severity Levels 3m Log Storage and Retention Strategy 4m Adding Log Context 1m Custom Filtering Which Events to Log 5m Correlating Log Entries 3m Enriching Log Events With Additional Data 5m Serilog Extras Overview 3m Debugging Configuration Problems 2m Module Summary 3m
Seq
Module Overview 2m Seq Overview 2m Installation 1m Writing to Seq From Serilog 4m Log Query Language 6m Creating and Saving Queries 4m Creating and Saving Views 2m Pinning Events 1m Creating Dashboard Watches 3m Configuring Log Retention Time 2m Installing and Using Seq Apps 6m Module Summary 2m
Description
Course info
Rating
(159)
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Jul 11, 2014
Duration
2h 10m
Description

Logging is an essential part of any application. When we are investigating problems or looking for patterns in our systems, we want our log data to be easy to query. Serilog empowers us to log meaningful, rich data that enables us to write complex queries and save time diagnosing faults. Serilog also has low up-front implementation cost with a clean, simple API.

About the author
Jason Roberts
About the author

With over 15 years experience, Jason Roberts is a Microsoft .NET MVP, freelance developer, and author.

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