Serilog.Settings.Xml

An XML config reader for Serilog.

Motivation

XML based configuration can be more suitable for some projects, because:

xml transformations can be used
out of the box support in MS Deploy and Octopus Deploy
configuration consistency in leagacy (not .NET Core) projects

Getting started

The package needs to be installed from NuGet:

Install-Package Serilog.Settings.Xml

To read configuration from xml configuration file use the ReadFrom.Xml(filePath) extension method on your LoggerConfiguration:

Log.Logger = new LoggerConfiguration()
  .ReadFrom.Xml("serilog.config")
  ... // Other configuration here
  .CreateLogger()

You can mix and match XML and code-based configuration, but each sink must be configured either using XML or in code - sinks added in code can't be modified via config file.

Configuration sample

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<serilog>

    <using>
        <add name="Serilog.Enrichers.Thread" />
        <add name="Serilog.Enrichers.Process" />
        <add name="Serilog.Enrichers.Environment" />
        <add name="Serilog.Sinks.File" />
    </using>

    <enrich>
        <enricher name="FromLogContext" />
        <enricher name="WithMachineName" />
        <enricher name="WithThreadId" />
        <enricher name="WithProcessId" />
        <enricher name="WithEnvironmentUserName" />
    </enrich>

    <properties>
        <property name="Application" value="Sample" />
        <property name="Path" value="%PATH%" />
    </properties>

    <minimumLevel default="Information">
        <override name="Microsoft" level="Warning" />
        <override name="Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc" level="Error" />
    </minimumLevel>

    <writeTo>
        <sink name="File">
            <arg name="path" value="%TEMP%/Logs/serilog-configuration-sample.txt" />
        </sink>
    </writeTo>

</serilog>

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