Introducing the .NET Core Common Logging framework

Logging is an integral part of .NET Core, which provides several abstractions to support it; needless to say, it is fully pluggable and extensible. The infrastructure classes, interfaces, abstract base classes, enumerations, and so on are contained in the Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions NuGet package and the built-in implementations are contained in the Microsoft.Extensions.Logging package. When you log a message, it is routed to all registered logging providers.

Here, we will see the following:

• Using logging services
• Defining log levels
• Using logging providers
• Filtering logs
• Writing custom log providers
• Using dependency injection (DI) with the log providers
• Using logging attributes

We will study each of these in the coming sections.

Using logging services

We register the logging services by calling...