I'm working on an MVC6 web app and I'm new to ASP.NET 5. I can see that the Logging (Microsoft.Extensions.Logging) is used at many places (eg: AccountController.cs) in ASP.NET 5 default web application template, but I couldn't figure out where to configure the path of the created log file. Below settings are found in appsettings.json file.
"Logging": {
"IncludeScopes": false,
"LogLevel": {
"Default": "Verbose",
"System": "Information",
"Microsoft": "Information"
} }
Is it enough to add a parameter in this section? If yes, what is the parameter name? If no, how to do it?
Previously I used Log4Net and configurations were done inside logger.config file.
ILogger is just an abstraction, you have to implement a concrete logger (log4net, serilog, ...) to log in a file.
public Startup(IHostingEnvironment env)
{
// Some other code
Log.Logger = new LoggerConfiguration()
.MinimumLevel.Debug().WriteTo.File("YOUR FILE PATH HERE")
.CreateLogger();
}
In configure's method (using serilog here) :
public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env, ILoggerFactory loggerFactory)
{
loggerFactory.AddSerilog();
// Some other code
}