Logging and monitoring in Azure

In this section, we will talk about the logging and monitoring options in Azure.

Logging

The .NET Core app models, such as ASP.NET Core, support logging out-of-the-box. Logging can be enabled by injecting the ILoggerFactory instance through the Configure method of the Startup class, and then using that to add providers. There are a few built-in providers available in the Microsoft.Extensions.Logging namespace. For example, to log information at the Console level, we can call the AddConsole method on the instance of LoggerFactory or AddDebug to log information in the Debug window when the application is running under the debug mode.

Following is the list of logging provider's shipped with ASP.NET Core:

• Console
• Debug
• EventSource
• EventLog
• TraceSource
• Azure App Service

This is the sample code snippet to inject the logger factory instance on the Configure method in the ASP.NET Core application:

    public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app,
      IHostingEnvironment env...