About Serilog
Serilog is a powerful logging library for .NET that emphasizes structured event data while maintaining the convenience of traditional log files. It offers a clean API, easy setup, and cross-platform compatibility. Unlike other logging tools, Serilog is designed to capture detailed event properties, enabling advanced search and analysis capabilities.
FAQ
Serilog is easy to set up. You can find installation guides and configuration basics on the project site, which includes documentation on writing log events, structured data, and provided sinks.
Unlike other logging libraries, Serilog is built with powerful structured event data in mind. It provides a clean API and is portable between recent .NET platforms.
Serilog uses message templates with a simple DSL extending .NET format strings. Parameters can be named, and their values are serialized as properties on the event, allowing for incredible searching and sorting flexibility.
The @ operator in front of a parameter tells Serilog to serialize the object passed in, rather than convert it using ToString(). This is useful for capturing complex objects as structured data.
You can find heaps of information and advice on the project site, including documentation, blog posts, packages on NuGet, and a Gitter chat for community support. There is also a serilog tag on Stack Overflow for questions.
Yes, Serilog is open source software under the Apache 2.0 license, copyright © and maintained by its contributors.
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