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Apps and Services with .NET 8 - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Dec 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837637133
Pages 798 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Mark J. Price Mark J. Price
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters close

Preface 1. Introducing Apps and Services with .NET 2. Managing Relational Data Using SQL Server 3. Building Entity Models for SQL Server Using EF Core 4. Managing NoSQL Data Using Azure Cosmos DB 5. Multitasking and Concurrency 6. Using Popular Third-Party Libraries 7. Handling Dates, Times, and Internationalization 8. Building and Securing Web Services Using Minimal APIs 9. Caching, Queuing, and Resilient Background Services 10. Building Serverless Nanoservices Using Azure Functions 11. Broadcasting Real-Time Communication Using SignalR 12. Combining Data Sources Using GraphQL 13. Building Efficient Microservices Using gRPC 14. Building Web User Interfaces Using ASP.NET Core 15. Building Web Components Using Blazor 16. Building Mobile and Desktop Apps Using .NET MAUI 17. Epilogue 18. Index

Logging with Serilog

Although .NET includes logging frameworks, third-party logging providers give more power and flexibility by using structured event data. Serilog is the most popular.

Structured event data

Most systems write plain text messages to their logs.

Serilog can be told to write serialized structured data to the log. The @ symbol prefixing a parameter tells Serilog to serialize the object passed in, instead of just the result of calling the ToString method.

Later, that complex object can be queried for improved search and sort capabilities in the logs.

For example:

var lineitem = new { ProductId = 11, UnitPrice = 25.49, Quantity = 3 };
log.Information("Added {@LineItem} to shopping cart.", lineitem);

You can learn more about how Serilog handles structured data at the following link: https://github.com/serilog/serilog/wiki/Structured-Data.

Serilog sinks

All logging systems need to record the log entries somewhere...

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