carlossardo / easygelf

GELF for log4net and NLog

EasyGelf(The latest version is 0.4.3.0)

Goals: to support up to date version of Gelf and provide reliable integration with popular .Net logging libraries.

Now log4net and NLog are supported. Also Udp, Tcp and Amqp protocols are supported.

Usage(log4net)

###Minimal configuration:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<log4net>
  <appender name="GelfUdpAppender" type=" EasyGelf.Log4Net.GelfUdpAppender, EasyGelf.Log4Net">
    <remoteAddress value="127.0.0.1" />
    <remotePort value="12201" />
    <facility value="Easy Gelf Example Application" />
    <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
      <conversionPattern value="%message%newline" />
    </layout>
  </appender>
  <appender name="GelfAmqpAppender" type=" EasyGelf.Log4Net.GelfAmqpAppender, EasyGelf.Log4Net">
    <connectionUri value="amqp://" />
    <facility value="Easy Gelf Example Application" />
    <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
      <conversionPattern value="%message%newline" />
    </layout>
  </appender>
  <appender name="GelfHttpAppender" type=" EasyGelf.Log4Net.GelfHttpAppender, EasyGelf.Log4Net">
    <facility>Easy Gelf Example Application</facility>
    <connectionUri value="https://graylog2.yourdomain.com:12201/gelf" />
    <basicAuthenticationUsername value="test-username" />
    <basicAuthenticationPassword value="test-password" />
    <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
      <conversionPattern value="%message%newline" />
    </layout>
  </appender>
  <root>
    <level value="ALL" />
    <appender-ref ref="GelfUdpAppender" />
    <appender-ref ref="GelfAmqpAppender" />
    <appender-ref ref="GelfHttpAppender" />
  </root>
</log4net>

Usage(NLog)

###Minimal configuration:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<nlog xmlns="http://www.nlog-project.org/schemas/NLog.xsd"
      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <extensions>
    <add assembly="EasyGelf.NLog"/>
  </extensions>
  <targets>
    <target name="GelfUdp" xsi:type="GelfUdp" facility="Easy Gelf Example Application" remoteAddress="127.0.0.1" remotePort="12201" layout="${message}"/>
    <target name="GelfAmqp" xsi:type="GelfAmqp" facility="Easy Gelf Example Application" connectionUri="amqp://" layout="${message}"/>
  </targets>
  <rules>
    <logger name="*" minlevel="Info" writeTo="GelfUdp" />
    <logger name="*" minlevel="Info" writeTo="GelfAmqp" />
  </rules>
</nlog>

##Additional configuration ###Common

• includeSource (default: true)

  • Whether the source of the log message should be included

• hostName (default: the machine name)

  • The host name of the machine generating the logs

• facility (default: gelf)

  • The application specific name

• useRetry (default: true)

  • Allow to retry send log message
  • retryCount (default: 5)
    • Count of retry attemps
  • retryDelay (default: 50ms)
    • Pause between retry attempts

• includeStackTrace (default: true)

  • Will include exception message and exception stack trace