Serilog - program.cs

Here is a sample stripped down program.cs with configurations in place for Serilog

using Serilog;


// serilog stuff - see
// https://codewithmukesh.com/blog/structured-logging-with-serilog-in-aspnet-core/
Log.Logger = new LoggerConfiguration()
    .WriteTo.Console()
    .CreateLogger();

try
{
    var builder = WebApplication.CreateBuilder(args);

    //more serilog
    // add Serilog to our ASP.NET Core Application’s DI Container. We
    // have defined 2 configurations here, which are to write to Console,
    // and to read configurations from appsettings.json. This will be
    // applied to the entire application wherever we use the
    // ILogger<> interface. Also, this will ignore the Logging configuration
    // from the appsettings file and consider only the Serilog section in
    // appsettings.json.
    //
    builder.Host.UseSerilog((hostingContext, loggerConfiguration) => loggerConfiguration
        .ReadFrom.Configuration(hostingContext.Configuration)
        .Enrich.FromLogContext() // from copilot
        .WriteTo.Console());

    // get appSettings.json data
    var environmentName = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT");

    // load up the config file, load AppSettings.json and the environment specific one.
    IConfiguration config = new ConfigurationBuilder()
        .AddJsonFile("appsettings.json", false, reloadOnChange: true)
        .AddJsonFile($"appsettings.{environmentName}.json", true, reloadOnChange: true)
        .Build();


    var app = builder.Build();
    // serilog - to log ASP.NET Core HTTP requests to the sinks. 
    app.UseSerilogRequestLogging();


    app.Run();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
    Log.Fatal(ex, "server terminated unexpectedly");
}
finally
{
    Log.CloseAndFlush();
}

I’ve documented this, more text will be supplied as needed.