Hands-On RESTful Web Services with ASP.NET Core 3

Implementing logging providers

So far, we have defined what to log in our application; in this section, we will illustrate how to do this. In ASP.NET Core, the logging provider is initialized using dependency injection. Moreover, it is possible to conditionally initialize it, depending on the environment or other startup options.

ASP.NET Core provides some built-in logging providers, as shown in the following table:

Providers	Namespace	Description
Console	Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Console	Sets the console of the running application as the output of the logs.
Debug	Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Debug	Writes messages in the debug output window when a debugger is attached.
EventSource	Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.EventSource ...