iimamul / serilog-webapi

Getting Started with Serilog and WebAPI

• Serilog Docs

• From serilog documentation first find out the serilog documentation for AspnetCore because that one is needed for WebApi.

• Install the Serilog.AspNetCore package with following cmd or from nuget package manager:

   dotnet add package Serilog.AspNetCore

• Implement the example in the documentation, then move the configuration to the appsettings.json file following serilog-settings configuration.

• After all the configuration done in Program.cs then just do Log.Information() inside the controller.

   public IEnumerable<WeatherForecast> Get()
   {
       var forcasts = Enumerable.Range(1, 5).Select(index => new WeatherForecast
       {
           Date = DateOnly.FromDateTime(DateTime.Now.AddDays(index)),
           TemperatureC = Random.Shared.Next(-20, 55),
           Summary = Summaries[Random.Shared.Next(Summaries.Length)]
       })
       .ToArray();
   		//Log forcast data
       Log.Information("Weather Forcasts: {@forc}", forcasts);
   
       return forcasts;
   }

The @ operator in front of forc tells Serilog to serialize the object passed in, rather than convert it using ToString().