Serilog.Sinks.Debug

A Serilog sink that writes log events to the Visual Studio debug output window.

Getting started

To use the sink, first install the NuGet package:

Install-Package Serilog.Sinks.Debug

Then enable the sink using WriteTo.Debug():

Log.Logger = new LoggerConfiguration()
    .WriteTo.Debug()
    .CreateLogger();
    
Log.Information("Hello, world!");

Log events will be printed to the debug output:

XML <appSettings> configuration

To use the sink with the Serilog.Settings.AppSettings package, first install that package if you haven't already done so:

Install-Package Serilog.Settings.AppSettings

Instead of configuring the logger in code, call ReadFrom.AppSettings():

var log = new LoggerConfiguration()
    .ReadFrom.AppSettings()
    .CreateLogger();

In your application's App.config or Web.config file, specify the console sink assembly under the <appSettings> node:

<configuration>
  <appSettings>
    <add key="serilog:using:Debug" value="Serilog.Sinks.Debug" />
    <add key="serilog:write-to:Debug" />

JSON appsettings.json configuration

To use the console sink with Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration, for example with ASP.NET Core or .NET Core, use the Serilog.Settings.Configuration package. First install that package if you have not already done so:

Install-Package Serilog.Settings.Configuration

Instead of configuring the sink directly in code, call ReadFrom.Configuration():

var configuration = new ConfigurationBuilder()
    .AddJsonFile("appsettings.json")
    .Build();

var logger = new LoggerConfiguration()
    .ReadFrom.Configuration(configuration)
    .CreateLogger();

In your appsettings.json file, under the Serilog node, :

{
  "Serilog": {
    "WriteTo": ["Debug"]
  }
}

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