NLog is a flexible and free logging platform for various .NET platforms, including .NET standard. NLog makes it easy to write to several targets. (database, file, console) and change the logging configuration on-the-fly. NLog has support for structured and traditional logging. The focus for NLog is high performance, easy-to-use, easy to extend and flexible to configure. NLog is very easy to configure, both through configuration file and programmatically. Even without restarting the application, the configuration can be changed. Every log message can be templated with various layout renders. Even though NLog has targets and pre-defined layouts, you can write custom targets or pass custom values. Fully support for structured logging. Targets are used to display, store or pass log messages to another destination. NLog can dynamically write to one of multiple targets for each log message.
Features
- NLog has support for structured and traditional logging
- Write logs to any number of files, with automatic file naming and archival
- Write to event log local or remote
- Store your logs in databases supported by .NET
- Write log messages to the ASP.NET Core Logging
- Write real-time to the command-line console including color coding of messages
Project Samples
