C# Logging

An abstracted logging platform for .NET. It can help you collect reliable logs for your application regardless of its size or complexity with minimal performance implications.

Nuget Packages:

• Chinchilla.Logging - core library with Console and Trace based outputs
• Chinchilla.Logging.Azure - an Azure based package to store outputs in Azure Log Analytics and/or to allow configuration settings to be set via the Azure portal
• Chinchilla.Logging.Azure.ApplicationInsights - an Azure based package to add Telemetry automatically as a result of logging to ApplicationInsights
• Chinchilla.Logging.Azure.Storage - an Azure based package to store outputs in Azure Table Storage
• Chinchilla.Logging.Sql - a SqlServer based package to store outputs in SqlServer.
• Chinchilla.Logging.Serilog - a Serilog based package to store outputs using Serilog.

The CorrelationId and ICorrelationIdHelper

A CorrelationId is an identifier used to group together logs. This might be all logs as a result of calling a webform or MVC controller action. To use it add the following to your global.asax.cs, replacing NinjectDependencyResolver with your dependency resolver of choice.

	protected void Application_BeginRequest(object sender, EventArgs e)
	{
		NinjectDependencyResolver.Current.Resolve<ICorrelationIdHelper>().SetCorrelationId(Guid.NewGuid());
	}

There are three built-in ICorrelationIdHelper implementations, CorrelationIdHelper, WebCorrelationIdHelper and NullCorrelationIdHelper

WebCorrelationIdHelper is for use on a website. CorrelationIdHelper is for use in a console app, windows service, winform or other such application not managed by IIS. NullCorrelationIdHelper is for use in unit and integration tests. It always returns Guid.Empty

ILogger Implementations

TraceLogger

ConsoleLogger

SqlLogger

SerilogLogger

TableStorageLogger

LogAnalyticsLogger

MultiLogger - for those odd times you need to use multiple technology stacks for logging.