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What are the best .NET logging frameworks?
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Best .NET logging frameworks
Price
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NLog
Free
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Serilog
Free
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log4net
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Lightrun
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ELMAH
Free
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NLog
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NLog
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NLog
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Easily configurable
The config file is fairly easy to understand and modify without having to pore over pages and pages of documentation.
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Suyash Gupta's Experience
Not able to configure it for Xamarin Platform. No documentation or working sample available online.
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Easy to set up
Getting starting with NLog is quick and you can be up and running in a matter of minutes by following the official Getting Started tutorial.
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Supports Semantic Logging
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Free
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Serilog
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Serilog
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Serilog
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Can log structured data
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Documentation is distributed among plugins
Determining what logger, formatter, option is more difficult because documentation is associated with each component.
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Suyash Gupta's Experience
Great framework with awesome documentation
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Flexible configuration options
Configuring directly or using appsettings is fairly and there are many examples available.
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ResponsibleMorta's Experience
Does what is says on the tin
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Multiple extensions
You can easily configure it to log into Console / File / Seq / ElasticSearch / etc.
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Log Enricher and Log Context features
Easily and extensibly enrich your log messages with contextual information such as thread or request ID.
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Is portable between recent .NET platforms
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Free
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log4net
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log4net
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log4net
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6
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Widely Used
Using log4net is a safe bet - many other open-source projects use it as well and it'll be just another dependency you don't have to worry about. This also means finding support to fix bugs is a lot easier!
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Dealing with errors can be a pain
Because of the poor documentation and difficulty of configuration you might end up spending a lot of time just trying to fix things that aren't working.
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Robust
Has all the features you'll most likely need, and is quite configurable. Basically what you'd expect from a very popular and widely-used framework.
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Confusing Documentation
Documentation is quite difficult to navigate through unless you know exactly what you're looking for.
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Supports Multiple Frameworks
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Modular and Extendable
Has plugins for most of the things you'll need to get done without having to deal with too much unnecessary functionality.
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Free
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Lightrun
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Lightrun
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ELMAH
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ELMAH
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ELMAH
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3
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Pluggable
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No recent updates
The last commit on GitHub dates from 2018.
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No .NET Core support
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Free
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JSNLog
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JSNLog
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JSNLog
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No dependencies
No dependencies on other JavaScript libraries
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No reporting capabilities
Your server logging solution should provide that, and JSNlog integrates with Elmah, Log4Net, NLog, Serilog, Common.Logging.
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RickZeeland's Experience
Open source JavaScript logging package that logs JavaScript errors, AJAX timeouts and other client side events in your server side log. Supports Elmah, Log4Net, NLog, Serilog, Common.Logging.
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.NET, JS, PHP, Node
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Free
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No hosted option
You'll have to store client-side logs along with your server-side logs.
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Stack traces
JSNLog passes exception log messages with its stack trace.
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Integrates with your existing server-side logging package
Not a hosted option, so you'll store client-side logs along with your server-side logs.
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BitFactory
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BitFactory
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BitFactory
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4
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1
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Lightweight and Solid
Less complexity means fewer points of failure, and better performance.
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ThriftyAoGuang's Experience
Not available
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Stupid Simple to Use
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Bloat-Free
Out of the box it's only 100K - it contains the essentials for a logging framework and leaves it at that.
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$99 p/month
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