Configuration

Serilog settings are read from appsettings.json when AddCustomLogging receives an IConfiguration. The section is optional and the call creates a working logger without it; add Serilog only to override levels or apply extra Serilog configuration. The package always adds log-context enrichment, and adds its asynchronous console sink unless includeConsoleSink is false; configuration can add sinks and override levels through anything Serilog.Settings.Configuration supports.

{
    "Serilog": {
        "MinimumLevel": {
            "Default": "Information",
            "Override": {
                "Microsoft": "Warning",
                "Microsoft.Hosting.Lifetime": "Information"
            }
        }
    }
}

WARNING

A WriteTo entry for the console in configuration is added to the package console sink, not merged with it, so the same line is written twice. Pass includeConsoleSink: false when the console sink is declared in configuration.

Serilog

The optional Serilog section itself, read by Serilog.Settings.Configuration. Every key that package understands is accepted here, including sinks and enrichers this package does not add on its own. Nothing binds it to an options type, and it is read once while the logger is being built, so there is no settings object to inject afterwards.

Fields

MinimumLevel: object
The nested MinimumLevel object.

MinimumLevel

The nested Serilog:MinimumLevel object, deciding which events reach the sinks at all.

Fields

Default: string
Level applied to every source without an override, as one of Verbose, Debug, Information, Warning, Error, or Fatal.

Override: Dictionary<string, string>
Minimum level per source-context prefix, usually a namespace, so one noisy component can be raised without moving the default for everything else.