gelf4net is a log4net adapter that formats logs to the GELF specification and makes it easy to send them over Udp, Amqp or http.
You can install the latest stable release using on of the the nugets package:
All the libraries supports net46 and netstandard2.0
Gelf4Net. Contains all the AppendersGelf4Net.UdpAppender. Only UdpAppendersGelf4Net.AmqpAppender. Only AmqpAppendersGelf4Net.HttpAppender. Only HttpAppenders
Gelf4Net gives you the ability to log messages either through Udp, Amqp or Http.
net46 & netstandard2.0
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
<configSections>
<section name="log4net" type="log4net.Config.Log4NetConfigurationSectionHandler,Log4net"/>
</configSections>
<log4net>
<appender name="GelfUdpAppenderCC" type="Gelf4Net.Appender.GelfUdpAppender, Gelf4Net">
<remoteAddress value="192.168.44.10" />
<remotePort value="12201" />
<layout type="Gelf4Net.Layout.GelfLayout, Gelf4Net">
<param name="AdditionalFields" value="app:UdpAppenderCC,version:1.0,Environment:Dev,Level:%level" />
<param name="Facility" value="RandomPhrases" />
<param name="IncludeLocationInformation" value="true" />
<param name="SendTimeStampAsString" value="true"/>
<!-- Sets the full_message and short_message to the specified pattern-->
<param name="ConversionPattern" value="[%t] %c{1} - %m" />
</layout>
</appender>
<appender name="GelfUdpAppender" type="Gelf4Net.Appender.GelfUdpAppender, Gelf4Net">
<remoteAddress value="192.168.44.10" />
<remotePort value="12201" />
<layout type="Gelf4Net.Layout.GelfLayout, Gelf4Net">
<param name="AdditionalFields" value="app:UdpAppender,version:1.0,Environment:Dev,Level:%level" />
<param name="Facility" value="RandomPhrases" />
<param name="IncludeLocationInformation" value="true" />
<param name="SendTimeStampAsString" value="false"/>
</layout>
</appender>
<appender name="AsyncGelfUdpAppender" type="Gelf4Net.Appender.AsyncGelfUdpAppender, Gelf4Net">
<!-- Limit of log lines to buffer for async send. Defaults to 1000-->
<!-- If we cannot connect to graylog and the queue reaches the buffersize it will dequeue messages from the queue-->
<bufferSize value="2000" />
<!-- Number of tasks to use for the async appender. 0 or fewer indicates one task per processor-->
<threads value="2" />
<remoteAddress value="192.168.44.10" />
<remotePort value="12201" />
<layout type="Gelf4Net.Layout.GelfLayout, Gelf4Net">
<param name="AdditionalFields" value="app:AsyncUdpAppender,version:1.0,Environment:Dev,Level:%level" />
<param name="Facility" value="RandomPhrases" />
<param name="IncludeLocationInformation" value="true" />
<param name="SendTimeStampAsString" value="true"/>
</layout>
</appender>
<appender name="GelfHttpAppender" type="Gelf4Net.Appender.GelfHttpAppender, Gelf4Net">
<url value="http://192.168.44.10:12201/gelf" />
<layout type="Gelf4Net.Layout.GelfLayout, Gelf4Net">
<param name="AdditionalFields" value="app:HttpAppender,version:1.0,Environment:Dev,Level:%level" />
<param name="Facility" value="RandomPhrases" />
<param name="IncludeLocationInformation" value="true" />
<param name="SendTimeStampAsString" value="false"/>
<!--Sets the full_message and short_message to the specified pattern-->
<!--<param name="ConversionPattern" value="[%t] %c{1} - %m" />-->
</layout>
</appender>
<appender name="AsyncGelfHttpAppender" type="Gelf4Net.Appender.AsyncGelfHttpAppender, Gelf4Net">
<url value="http://127.0.0.1:12201/gelf" />
<!-- Limit of log lines to buffer for async send. Defaults to 1000-->
<!-- If we cannot connect to graylog and the queue reaches the buffersize it will dequeue messages from the queue-->
<bufferSize value="2000" />
<!-- Number of tasks to use for the async appender. 0 or fewer indicates one task per processor-->
<threads value="2" />
<layout type="Gelf4Net.Layout.GelfLayout, Gelf4Net">
<param name="AdditionalFields" value="app:AsyncHttpAppender,version:1.0,Environment:Dev,Level:%level" />
<param name="Facility" value="RandomPhrases" />
<param name="IncludeLocationInformation" value="true" />
<param name="SendTimeStampAsString" value="false" />
<!--Sets the full_message and short_message to the specified pattern-->
<!--<param name="ConversionPattern" value="[%t] %c{1} - %m" />-->
</layout>
</appender>
<appender name="GelfAmqpAppender" type="Gelf4Net.Appender.GelfAmqpAppender, Gelf4Net">
<remoteAddress value="192.168.44.10" />
<remotePort value="5672" />
<username value="guest" />
<password value="guest" />
<virtualHost value="/" />
<exchange value="log-messages" />
<key value="#" />
<layout type="Gelf4Net.Layout.GelfLayout, Gelf4Net">
<param name="AdditionalFields" value="app:GelfAmqpAppender,version:1.0,Level:%level" />
<param name="Facility" value="RandomPhrases" />
<param name="IncludeLocationInformation" value="true" />
<param name="SendTimeStampAsString" value="false"/>
<!-- Sets the full_message and short_message to the specified pattern-->
<!--<param name="ConversionPattern" value="[%t] %c{1} - %m" />-->
</layout>
</appender>
<appender name="AsyncGelfAmqpAppender" type="Gelf4Net.Appender.AsyncGelfAmqpAppender, Gelf4Net">
<!-- Limit of log lines to buffer for async send. Defaults to 1000-->
<!-- If we cannot connect to graylog and the queue reaches the buffersize it will dequeue messages from the queue-->
<bufferSize value="2000" />
<!-- Number of tasks to use for the async appender. 0 or fewer indicates one task per processor-->
<threads value="2" />
<remoteAddress value="192.168.44.10" />
<remotePort value="5672" />
<username value="guest" />
<password value="guest" />
<virtualHost value="/" />
<exchange value="log-messages" />
<key value="#" />
<layout type="Gelf4Net.Layout.GelfLayout, Gelf4Net">
<param name="AdditionalFields" value="app:AsyncGelfAmqpAppender,version:1.0,Level:%level" />
<param name="Facility" value="RandomPhrases" />
<param name="IncludeLocationInformation" value="true" />
<!-- Sets the full_message and short_message to the specified pattern-->
<!--<param name="ConversionPattern" value="[%t] %c{1} - %m" />-->
</layout>
</appender>
<root>
<level value="ALL" />
<appender-ref ref="GelfUdpAppender" />
<appender-ref ref="GelfUdpAppenderCC" />
<appender-ref ref="AsyncGelfUdpAppender" />
<appender-ref ref="GelfHttpAppender" />
<appender-ref ref="AsyncGelfHttpAppender" />
<appender-ref ref="GelfAmqpAppender" />
<appender-ref ref="AsyncGelfAmqpAppender" />
</root>
</log4net>
</configuration>
net46
<log4net>
<appender name="GelfAmqpAppender" type="Gelf4Net.Appender.GelfAmqpAppender, Gelf4Net.AmqpAppender">
<remoteAddress value="192.168.44.10" />
<remotePort value="5672" />
<username value="guest" />
<password value="guest" />
<virtualHost value="/" />
<exchange value="log-messages" />
<key value="#" />
<layout type="Gelf4Net.Layout.GelfLayout, Gelf4Net.AmqpAppender">
<param name="AdditionalFields" value="app:GelfAmqpAppender,version:1.0,Level:%level" />
<param name="Facility" value="RandomPhrases" />
<param name="IncludeLocationInformation" value="true" />
<param name="SendTimeStampAsString" value="false"/>
<!-- Sets the full_message and short_message to the specified pattern-->
<!--<param name="ConversionPattern" value="[%t] %c{1} - %m" />-->
</layout>
</appender>
<appender name="AsyncGelfAmqpAppender" type="Gelf4Net.Appender.AsyncGelfAmqpAppender, Gelf4Net.AmqpAppender">
<!-- Limit of log lines to buffer for async send. Defaults to 1000-->
<!-- If we cannot connect to graylog and the queue reaches the buffersize it will dequeue messages from the queue-->
<bufferSize value="2000" />
<!-- Number of tasks to use for the async appender. 0 or fewer indicates one task per processor-->
<threads value="2" />
<remoteAddress value="192.168.44.10" />
<remotePort value="5672" />
<username value="guest" />
<password value="guest" />
<virtualHost value="/" />
<exchange value="log-messages" />
<key value="#" />
<layout type="Gelf4Net.Layout.GelfLayout, Gelf4Net.AmqpAppender">
<param name="AdditionalFields" value="app:AsyncGelfAmqpAppender,version:1.0,Level:%level" />
<param name="Facility" value="RandomPhrases" />
<param name="IncludeLocationInformation" value="true" />
<param name="SendTimeStampAsString" value="false"/>
<!-- Sets the full_message and short_message to the specified pattern-->
<!--<param name="ConversionPattern" value="[%t] %c{1} - %m" />-->
</layout>
</appender>
<root>
<level value="ALL" />
<appender-ref ref="GelfAmqpAppender" />
<appender-ref ref="AsyncGelfAmqpAppender" />
</root>
</log4net>
netstandard2.0
<log4net>
<appender name="GelfAmqpAppender" type="Gelf4Net.Appender.GelfAmqpAppender, Gelf4Net.AmqpAppender">
<remoteAddress value="192.168.44.10" />
<remotePort value="5672" />
<username value="guest" />
<password value="guest" />
<virtualHost value="/" />
<exchange value="log-messages" />
<key value="#" />
<layout type="Gelf4Net.Layout.GelfLayout, Gelf4Net.Core">
<param name="AdditionalFields" value="app:DotnetcoreGelfAmqpAppender,version:1.0,Level:%level" />
<param name="Facility" value="RandomPhrases" />
<param name="IncludeLocationInformation" value="true" />
<param name="SendTimeStampAsString" value="false"/>
</layout>
</appender>
<appender name="AsyncGelfAmqpAppender" type="Gelf4Net.Appender.AsyncGelfAmqpAppender, Gelf4Net.AmqpAppender">
<!-- Limit of log lines to buffer for async send. Defaults to 1000-->
<!-- If we cannot connect to graylog and the queue reaches the buffersize it will dequeue messages from the queue-->
<bufferSize value="2000" />
<!-- Number of tasks to use for the async appender. 0 or fewer indicates one task per processor-->
<threads value="2" />
<remoteAddress value="192.168.44.10" />
<remotePort value="5672" />
<username value="guest" />
<password value="guest" />
<virtualHost value="/" />
<exchange value="log-messages" />
<key value="#" />
<layout type="Gelf4Net.Layout.GelfLayout, Gelf4Net.Core">
<param name="AdditionalFields" value="app:DotnetcoreAsyncGelfAmqpAppender,version:1.0,Level:%level" />
<param name="Facility" value="RandomPhrases" />
<param name="IncludeLocationInformation" value="true" />
<param name="ConversionPattern" value="[%t] %c{1} - %m" />
</layout>
</appender>
<root>
<level value="ALL" />
<appender-ref ref="GelfAmqpAppender" />
<appender-ref ref="AsyncGelfAmqpAppender" />
</root>
</log4net>
net46
<log4net>
<appender name="GelfHttpAppender" type="Gelf4net.Appender.GelfHttpAppender, Gelf4Net.HttpAppender">
<url value="http://192.168.44.10:12201/gelf" />
<layout type="Gelf4net.Layout.GelfLayout, Gelf4Net.HttpAppender">
<param name="AdditionalFields" value="app:GelfHttpAppender,version:1.0,Environment:Dev,Level:%level" />
<param name="Facility" value="RandomPhrases" />
<param name="IncludeLocationInformation" value="true" />
<param name="SendTimeStampAsString" value="false"/>
<!-- Sets the full_message and short_message to the specified pattern-->
<param name="ConversionPattern" value="[%t] %c{1} - %m" />
</layout>
</appender>
<appender name="AsyncGelfHttpAppender" type="Gelf4Net.Appender.AsyncGelfHttpAppender, Gelf4Net.HttpAppender">
<!-- Limit of log lines to buffer for async send. Defaults to 1000-->
<!-- If we cannot connect to graylog and the queue reaches the buffersize it will dequeue messages from the queue-->
<bufferSize value="2000" />
<!-- Number of tasks to use for the async appender. 0 or fewer indicates one task per processor-->
<threads value="2" />
<url value="http://127.0.0.1:12201/gelf" />
<layout type="Gelf4net.Layout.GelfLayout, Gelf4Net.HttpAppender">
<param name="AdditionalFields" value="app:AsyncGelfHttpAppender,version:1.0,Environment:Dev,Level:%level" />
<param name="Facility" value="SimpleConsoleApplicationHttpPackage" />
<param name="IncludeLocationInformation" value="true" />
<param name="SendTimeStampAsString" value="false" />
<!--Sets the full_message and short_message to the specified pattern-->
<!--<param name="ConversionPattern" value="[%t] %c{1} - %m" />-->
</layout>
</appender>
<root>
<level value="ALL" />
<appender-ref ref="GelfHttpAppender" />
<appender-ref ref="AsyncGelfHttpAppender" />
</root>
</log4net>
netstandard2.0
<log4net>
<appender name="GelfHttpAppender" type="Gelf4Net.Appender.GelfHttpAppender, Gelf4Net.HttpAppender">
<url value="http://192.168.44.10:12201/gelf" />
<layout type="Gelf4Net.Layout.GelfLayout, Gelf4Net.Core">
<param name="AdditionalFields" value="app:DotnetcoreHttpAppender,version:1.0,Environment:Dev,Level:%level" />
<param name="Facility" value="RandomPhrases" />
<param name="IncludeLocationInformation" value="true" />
</layout>
</appender>
<appender name="AsyncGelfHttpAppender" type="Gelf4Net.Appender.AsyncGelfHttpAppender, Gelf4Net.HttpAppender">
<!-- Limit of log lines to buffer for async send. Defaults to 1000-->
<!-- If we cannot connect to graylog and the queue reaches the buffersize it will dequeue messages from the queue-->
<bufferSize value="2000" />
<!-- Number of tasks to use for the async appender. 0 or fewer indicates one task per processor-->
<threads value="2" />
<url value="http://127.0.0.1:12201/gelf" />
<layout type="Gelf4net.Layout.GelfLayout, Gelf4Net.Core">
<param name="AdditionalFields" value="app:DotnetcoreAsyncGelfHttpAppender,version:1.0,Environment:Dev,Level:%level" />
<param name="Facility" value="SimpleConsoleApplicationHttpPackage" />
<param name="IncludeLocationInformation" value="true" />
<param name="SendTimeStampAsString" value="false" />
<!--Sets the full_message and short_message to the specified pattern-->
<!--<param name="ConversionPattern" value="[%t] %c{1} - %m" />-->
</layout>
</appender>
<root>
<level value="ALL" />
<appender-ref ref="GelfHttpAppender" />
</root>
</log4net>
net46
<log4net>
<appender name="AsyncGelfUdpAppender" type="Gelf4Net.Appender.AsyncGelfUdpAppender, Gelf4Net.UdpAppender">
<!-- Limit of log lines to buffer for async send. Defaults to 1000-->
<!-- If we cannot connect to graylog and the queue reaches the buffersize it will dequeue messages from the queue-->
<bufferSize value="2000" />
<!-- Number of tasks to use for the async appender. 0 or fewer indicates one task per processor-->
<threads value="2" />
<remoteAddress value="192.168.44.10" />
<remotePort value="12201" />
<maxChunkSize value="3" />
<layout type="Gelf4Net.Layout.GelfLayout, Gelf4Net.UdpAppender">
<param name="AdditionalFields" value="app:AsyncGelfUdpAppender,version:1.0,Environment:Dev,Level:%level" />
<param name="Facility" value="RandomPhrases" />
<param name="IncludeLocationInformation" value="true" />
<param name="SendTimeStampAsString" value="false"/>
</layout>
</appender>
<appender name="GelfUdpAppender" type="Gelf4Net.Appender.GelfUdpAppender, Gelf4Net.UdpAppender">
<remoteAddress value="192.168.44.10" />
<remotePort value="12201" />
<layout type="Gelf4Net.Layout.GelfLayout, Gelf4Net.UdpAppender">
<param name="AdditionalFields" value="app:GelfUdpAppender,version:1.0,Environment:Dev,Level:%level" />
<param name="Facility" value="RandomPhrases" />
<param name="IncludeLocationInformation" value="true" />
</layout>
</appender>
<root>
<level value="ALL" />
<appender-ref ref="GelfUdpAppender" />
<appender-ref ref="AsyncGelfUdpAppender" />
</root>
</log4net>
dotnetstandard2.0
<log4net>
<appender name="GelfUdpAppenderCC" type="Gelf4Net.Appender.GelfUdpAppender, Gelf4Net.UdpAppender">
<remoteAddress value="192.168.44.10" />
<remotePort value="12201" />
<layout type="Gelf4Net.Layout.GelfLayout, Gelf4Net.Core">
<param name="AdditionalFields" value="app:DotnetcoreUdpAppenderCC,version:1.0,Environment:Dev,Level:%level" />
<param name="Facility" value="RandomPhrases" />
<param name="IncludeLocationInformation" value="true" />
<param name="ConversionPattern" value="[%t] %c{1} - %m" />
</layout>
</appender>
<appender name="GelfUdpAppender" type="Gelf4Net.Appender.GelfUdpAppender, Gelf4Net.UdpAppender">
<remoteAddress value="192.168.44.10" />
<remotePort value="12201" />
<layout type="Gelf4Net.Layout.GelfLayout, Gelf4Net.Core">
<param name="AdditionalFields" value="app:DotnetcoreUdpAppender,version:1.0,Environment:Dev,Level:%level" />
<param name="Facility" value="RandomPhrases" />
<param name="IncludeLocationInformation" value="true" />
<param name="SendTimeStampAsString" value="false"/>
</layout>
</appender>
<appender name="AsyncGelfUdpAppender" type="Gelf4Net.Appender.AsyncGelfUdpAppender, Gelf4Net.UdpAppender">
<!-- Limit of log lines to buffer for async send. Defaults to 1000-->
<!-- If we cannot connect to graylog and the queue reaches the buffersize it will dequeue messages from the queue-->
<bufferSize value="2000" />
<!-- Number of tasks to use for the async appender. 0 or fewer indicates one task per processor-->
<threads value="2" />
<remoteAddress value="127.0.0.1" />
<remotePort value="12201" />
<maxChunkSize value="3" />
<layout type="Gelf4Net.Layout.GelfLayout, Gelf4Net.Core">
<param name="AdditionalFields" value="app:DotnetcoreAsyncUdpAppender,version:1.0,Environment:Dev,Level:%level" />
<param name="Facility" value="SimpleConsoleApplicationUdpPackage" />
<param name="IncludeLocationInformation" value="true" />
</layout>
</appender>
<root>
<level value="ALL" />
<appender-ref ref="GelfUdpAppender" />
<appender-ref ref="GelfUdpAppenderCC" />
<appender-ref ref="AsyncGelfUdpAppender" />
</root>
</log4net>
There are several ways that additional properties can be added to a log.
Configuration Any static information can be set through configuration by adding a comma separated list of key:value pairs. You can also use conversion patterns like you would if you were using the PatternLayout class:
<layout type="Gelf4net.Layout.GelfLayout, Gelf4net">
<param name="AdditionalFields" value="app:RandomSentence,version:1.0,Level:%level" />
</layout>
This will add the following fields to your GELF log:
{
...
"_app":"RandomSentence",
"_version":"1.0",
"_Level":"DEBUG",
...
}
You can also use your own custom field and key/value separators to deal with the case when the additional fields contain commas or colons
<layout type="Gelf4net.Layout.GelfLayout, Gelf4net">
<param name="AdditionalFields" value="app¬:¬RandomSentence¬|¬version:1.0¬|¬Level¬:¬%level" />
<param name="FieldSeparator" value="¬|¬" />
<param name="KeyValueSeparator" value="¬:¬" />
</layout>
Custom Properties
Any properties you add to the log4net.ThreadContext.Properties object
will automatically be added to the message as additional fields
log4net.ThreadContext.Properties["TraceID"] = Guid.NewGuid();
This will be added to the log:
{
...
"_TraceID":"3449DDF8-C3B4-46DD-8B83-0BDF1ABC92E2",
...
}
Custom Objects You can use custom objects to log additional fields to the output. Here is an example:
_logger.Debug(new {
Type = "Request",
Method = request.Method,
Url = request.Url
});
This will add the following additional fields to the output:
{
...
"_Type":"Request",
"_Method":"GET",
"_Url":"http://whatever.com/gelf",
...
}
Under the hood the GelfLayout class takes any object that is not a string and adds it's public
properties to a dictionary. All non-numeric values are then converted in to strings. You can also pass in a dictionary
directly and get the same output. When passing in a dictionary rather than using the public properties
of the object it uses the Key/Value pairs stored internally.
_logger.Debug(new Dictionary<string,string>{
{ "Type", "Request" },
{ "Method", request.Method },
{ "Url", request.Url.ToString() }
});
If you are just logging a simple string then that message will show up in the full_message and
be truncated to 250 characters in the short_message field.
_logger.Debug("This is a ridiculously short message but pretending it's longer than 250 characters");
Pretending the previous message is longer than 250 characters, this will be your output:
{
...
"full_message":"This is a ridiculously short message but pretending it's longer than 250 characters",
"short_message":"This is a ridiculously short message but pretending",
...
}
If you want to format your message using a conversion pattern you can do so by specifying the ConversionPattern parameter.
Again you can specify all the same parameters that you would if you were using the PatternLayout.
<layout type="Gelf4net.Layout.GelfLayout, Gelf4net">
<param name="ConversionPattern" value="[%t] %c{1} - %m" />
</layout>
You can also specify the message when logging custom objects:
_logger.Debug(new Dictionary<string,string>{
{ "Type", "Request" },
{ "Method", request.Method },
{ "Message", request.RawUrl }
{ "ShortMessage", request.Url.ToString() }
});
If the custom object does not have a Message or ShortMessage field than the message will be the
output of the ToString() of that object.
dotnetstandard1.5~Appenders doesn't log the file an line...
Using LoggingEventData with all the goodies of gelf4net.
Remember if you're not setting the LocationInfo in LoggingEventData you should set it to false
in the appender configuration <param name="IncludeLocationInformation" value="false"/>
var loggingEventData = new LoggingEventData
{
Message = "This is a message",
LoggerName = "Test.Logger.Class",
Level = Level.Debug,
TimeStamp = DateTime.Now
};
var loggingEvent = new LoggingEvent(loggingEventData);
If you want to send a custom properties, serialize the object.
var customObject = new {
Type = "Request",
Method = request.Method,
Url = request.Url
}
var loggingEventData = new LoggingEventData
{
Message = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(customObject),
LoggerName = "Test.Logger.Class",
Level = Level.Debug,
TimeStamp = DateTime.Now
};
var loggingEvent = new LoggingEvent(loggingEventData);
We have two new parameters in our AsyncAppenders thanks to @iwillspeak and a new AsyncAppender the AsyncGelfHttpAppender
<!-- Limit of log lines to buffer for async send. Defaults to 1000-->
<bufferSize value="2000" />
<!-- Number of tasks to use for the async appender. 0 or fewer indicates one task per processor-->
<threads value="2" />
The dotnetcore web project sample was based in http://dotnetliberty.com/index.php/2015/11/09/asp-net-5-logging-with-log4net/
This project is licensed under the MIT license
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