What is Serilog?
It provides diagnostic logging to files, the console, and elsewhere. It is easy to set up, has a clean API, and is portable between recent .NET platforms.
Serilog is a tool in the Log Management category of a tech stack.
Serilog is an open source tool with 7K GitHub stars and 792 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Serilog's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Serilog?
Companies
34 companies reportedly use Serilog in their tech stacks, including Armut, Hudl Web Stack, and Financial Services.
Developers
120 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Serilog.
Serilog Integrations
ASP.NET, C++, .NET, LogRocket, and Seq are some of the popular tools that integrate with Serilog. Here's a list of all 6 tools that integrate with Serilog.
Decisions about Serilog
Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Serilog in their tech stack.
Waqas Riaz
Software Engineer at Center for Water Informatics & Technology · | 4 upvotes · 1M views
Hi All, I am working upon developing a C# based windows service to work as a TCP server using Visual Studio 2019 as a development studio while using .NET Core 3.0.
As its a background application, therefore, I am up on to add tracing and logging feature into it and want to write to 'text file' my trace and log outputs.
By my research, I came upon 2 potential tracing and logging frameworks and on the verge to choose 1, therefore Serilog OR NLog.
Anyone here who can help me out by his/her experience of 1 framework being better than other.?
Serilog's Features
- Structured logging
- .NET logger
Serilog Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Serilog?
Logstash
Logstash is a tool for managing events and logs. You can use it to collect logs, parse them, and store them for later use (like, for searching). If you store them in Elasticsearch, you can view and analyze them with Kibana.
Seq
Seq is a self-hosted server for structured log search, analysis, and alerting. It can be hosted on Windows or Linux/Docker, and has integrations for most popular structured logging libraries.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
