Trace vs Verbose about serilog-extensions-logging

[nblumhardt]

Thanks for the repro, appreciate you taking the time to put this together 👍

The problem is that Serilog's minimum level is set at the logger level, so you need to add MinimumLevel.Verbose() to the configuration:

            var configuration = new LoggerConfiguration()
                .MinimumLevel.Verbose() // This line
                .Enrich.WithProperty("servername", Environment.MachineName)
                .WriteTo.ColoredConsole(outputTemplate: "SERILOG: [{Level}]: {Message}{NewLine}");  // Specific template, to make it stand out on the console
            loggerFactory.AddSerilog(configuration.CreateLogger());

restrictedToMinimumLevel on the individual sinks will "quieten down" a particular sink, but won't affect the overall level, which defaults to Information.

Cheers!

[kwaazaar]

This behaviour does not exist in the MS-stuff, since the sink itself specifies the level. That's what caused the confusion. Thanks for the feedback. I corrected my repro and now it works as expected! 👍

[nblumhardt]

Thanks for getting in touch. Trace and Verbose are already treated as synonyms here: https://github.com/serilog/serilog-extensions-logging/blob/dev/src/Serilog.Extensions.Logging/Extensions/Logging/SerilogLogger.cs#L125

Do you have a snippet that demonstrates where things are going wrong? Thanks!

[kwaazaar]

I noticed that code, but it really doesn't work for loglevels Debug and Trace. I created a small repro here: https://github.com/kwaazaar/Serilog.LogLevelRepro

[nblumhardt]

Great, glad to hear it's working for you now 👍

[Su-s]

Are there any way to resolve the issue

 "WriteTo": [
      {
        "Name": "Console",
        "Args": {
          "outputTemplate": "{Timestamp:yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.fff zzz} [correlationId: {CorrelationId} machineName:{MachineName} environmentName:{EnvironmentName} environmentUserName:{EnvironmentUserName} clientIp:{ClientIp} clientAgent:{ClientAgent} processId:{ProcessId} processName:{ProcessName} memory:{MemoryUsage} level:{Level: u3}] ({SourceContext}) {Message} {NewLine} {Exception} {Properties:j}{NewLine}",
          "theme": "Serilog.Sinks.SystemConsole.Themes.SystemConsoleTheme::Literate, Serilog.Sinks.Console",
          "restrictedToMinimumLevel": "Information"
        }
      },
      {
        "Name": "File",
        "Args": {
          "outputTemplate": "{Timestamp:yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.fff zzz} [correlationId: {CorrelationId} machineName:{MachineName} environmentName:{EnvironmentName} environmentUserName:{EnvironmentUserName} clientIp:{ClientIp} clientAgent:{ClientAgent} processId:{ProcessId} processName:{ProcessName} memory:{MemoryUsage} level:{Level: u3}] ({SourceContext}) {Message} {NewLine} {Exception} {Properties:j}{NewLine}",
          "path": "%localappdata%\\weabb.log",
          "rollingInterval": "Day",
          "restrictedToMinimumLevel": "Verbose"
        }
      },
      {
        "Name": "Seq",
        "Args": {
          "serverUrl": "http://localhost:5341",
          "apiKey": "none",
          "restrictedToMinimumLevel": "Information"
        }
      }
    ],

here, I only have to log the verbose details inside file log. and the information level log in seq and console.

is it possible to give like this?

i think this follows the above reply by @nblumhardt.

also, i have updated the logger config like this

               Log.Logger = new LoggerConfiguration()
                  .MinimumLevel.Verbose()
                  .Destructure.ByTransforming<UserIdentity>(u => new { u.Id, u.UserName })
                  .CreateBootstrapLogger();

Thanks for the repro, appreciate you taking the time to put this together 👍

The problem is that Serilog's minimum level is set at the logger level, so you need to add MinimumLevel.Verbose() to the configuration:

            var configuration = new LoggerConfiguration()
                .MinimumLevel.Verbose() // This line
                .Enrich.WithProperty("servername", Environment.MachineName)
                .WriteTo.ColoredConsole(outputTemplate: "SERILOG: [{Level}]: {Message}{NewLine}");  // Specific template, to make it stand out on the console
            loggerFactory.AddSerilog(configuration.CreateLogger());

restrictedToMinimumLevel on the individual sinks will "quieten down" a particular sink, but won't affect the overall level, which defaults to Information.

Cheers!

[bartelink]

@Su-s It's recommended to post question issues on stack overflow rather than necro-posting on 7 year old issues - the issues system here is for new feature work and things like bugs with full repros that can only be solved by maintainers and code changes.

There are way more eyes that will see the question over there tan here; anyone that's going to know the answer and have to time to respond, will also be monitoring the SO serilog tag.