Taking structured logging and elmah.io to the next level

We've supported a range of different logging frameworks for years. The more modern options support something called structured logging, which means that you can embed rich information inside a log message:

log.Information("Hello from {user}", "Ray Donovan");

When looking at the message logged to a file, you'll see the text Hello from Ray Donovan, but when utilizing a structured logging endpoint like elmah.io or Elasticsearch, log messages can be searched by user and a lot of other benefits.

Until now, properties inside log messages have gone into the Data tab on elmah.io. While the properties can be made searchable, a common request has been to be able to fill in field values on elmah.io like User, URL, and Hostname. With the recent wave of new versions of our logging framework integrations, setting field values using structured logging is now possible using a simple syntax:

log.Info("{Quote} from {User}", "Hasta la vista, baby", "Arnold Schwarzenegger");

In the example, the User field on the elmah.io UI will be populated with the value Arnold Schwarzenegger. Both the Quote and User property will still be added to the Data tab, but searching and grouping by a user is now a piece of cake:

user.raw:"Arnold Schwarzenegger"

The new structured logging support is available in our integrations for Serilog, NLog and Microsoft.Extensions.Logging. Enjoy, and as always, please get in contact with feedback.

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