Mastering ASP.NET Web API

Logging category

In the Startup class code snippet, you can see that the AddConsole log provider is reading the Logging section of appsettings.json. This section contains logging category details such as Default, System, and Microsoft.

The Log Category helps in writing logs that are specific to the application, the framework, or the entire system. Ideally, during development or in production, application level-specific logging is sufficient.

Let's add application level-specific logging instead of the default settings that are currently present. Open appsettings.json, remove the existing LogLevel details, and make the changes as shown here:

    { 
      "Logging": { 
        "IncludeScopes": false, 
        "LogLevel": { 
          "basic_logging_demo": "Warning" 
        }     
      } 
    }

basic_logging_demo ...