NLog.Web.AspNetCore 5.4.0

NLog.Web.AspNetCore

Integrates NLog as Logging provider for the ASP.NET Core platform, by just calling UseNLog() with the application host-builder.

Providing features like:

  • Enrich logging output with additional details from active HttpContext using NLog LayoutRenderers, by just updating the NLog configuration.
  • Supports middleware injection for HTTP Request Logging and HTTP Response Logging.
  • Routing logging output to multiple destinations via the available NLog Targets
  • Rendering logging output into standard formats like JSON, CVS, W3C ELF and XML using NLog Layouts.
  • Contributions are always welcome, by creating a pull request.

Supported platforms:

  • ASP.NET Core 5, 6, 7 and 8
  • ASP.NET Core 3.1
  • ASP.NET Core 2, .NET Standard 2.0 and .NET 4.6.1+

Registration of NLog.Web.AspNetCore in the NLog.config file:

<extensions>
    <add assembly="NLog.Web.AspNetCore"/>
</extensions>

Registration of NLog.Web.AspNetCore can also be performed with fluent setup:

NLog.LogManager.Setup().LoadConfigurationFromAppSettings();

Useful Links:

No packages depend on NLog.Web.AspNetCore.

ChangeLog: - AspNetUserClaimLayoutRenderer - Extended with Azure Claims ObjectId + TenantId + AppId (#1069) (@snakefoot) - Micro optimization by using is null (#1070) (@snakefoot) - Updated dependency NLog.Extensions.Logging v5.4 (#1072) (@snakefoot)List of major changes in NLog 5.0: https://nlog-project.org/2022/05/16/nlog-5-0-finally-ready.html Full changelog: https://github.com/NLog/NLog.Web/releases List of available Layout Renderers: https://nlog-project.org/config/?tab=layout-renderers&search=package:nlog.web.aspnetcore

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