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>