Customizing ASP.NET Core 5.0

Chapter 1: Customizing Logging

In this first chapter of the book about customizing ASP.NET Core, you will see how to customize logging. The default logging only writes to the console or to the debug window. This is quite good for the majority of cases, but it may be the case that you need to log to a sink, such as a file or a database. Perhaps you want to extend the logger with additional information. In these cases, you need to know how to change the default logging.

In this chapter, we will be covering the following topics:

• Configuring logging
• Creating a custom logger
• Plugging in an existing third-party logger provider

The topics in this chapter refer to the hosting layer of the ASP.NET Core architecture:

Figure 1.1 – ASP.NET Core ...