Monitoring with Seq
Monitoring the system’s state is essential to keep things healthy. One of the great tools we have available to do this is Seq. Seq and Serilog are a match made in heaven!
One of the reasons why Serilog is getting so much attention these days is because of its ability to write logs in a structured manner. We looked at this in the previous section but did not dive into what we could do. It is time to change that.
Since the logs coming from Serilog are formatted in a particular way, we can also store them in a specific way. One of the tools that allow us to do so is Seq. Seq is a tool by the company Datalust. You can get a free personal license from them to play around with your logs. You can choose to install Seq on your machine, or you can choose to download a Docker image that contains everything you need. I prefer the latter, but it doesn’t matter which option you choose. The Datalust website clearly explains how to get the bits. You can find...
