Serilog.Extensions.Hosting 9.0.0-dev-02303

Serilog.Extensions.Hosting Build status NuGet Version

Serilog logging for Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting. This package routes framework log messages through Serilog, so you can get information about the framework's internal operations written to the same Serilog sinks as your application events.

Versioning: This package tracks the versioning and target framework support of its Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting dependency. Most users should choose the version of Serilog.Extensions.Hosting that matches their application's target framework. I.e. if you're targeting .NET 7.x, choose a 7.x version of Serilog.Extensions.Hosting. If you're targeting .NET 8.x, choose an 8.x Serilog.Extensions.Hosting version, and so on.

Instructions

First, install the Serilog.Extensions.Hosting NuGet package into your app. You will need a way to view the log messages - Serilog.Sinks.Console writes these to the console; there are many more sinks available on NuGet.

dotnet add package Serilog.Extensions.Hosting
dotnet add package Serilog.Sinks.Console

Next, in your application's Program.cs file, configure Serilog first. A try/catch block will ensure any configuration issues are appropriately logged. Call AddSerilog() on the host application builder:

using Serilog;

Log.Logger = new LoggerConfiguration()
    .Enrich.FromLogContext()
    .WriteTo.Console()
    .CreateLogger();

try
{
    Log.Information("Starting host");

    var builder = Host.CreateApplicationBuilder(args);
    builder.Services.AddHostedService<PrintTimeService>();
    builder.Services.AddSerilog();

    var app = builder.Build();
    
    await app.RunAsync();
    return 0;
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
    Log.Fatal(ex, "Host terminated unexpectedly");
    return 1;
}
finally
{
    await Log.CloseAndFlushAsync();
}

Finally, clean up by removing the remaining "Logging" section from appsettings.json files (this can be replaced with Serilog configuration as shown in this example, if required)

That's it! You will see log output like:

[22:10:39 INF] Getting the motors running...
[22:10:39 INF] The current time is: 12/05/2018 10:10:39 +00:00

A more complete example, showing appsettings.json configuration, can be found in the sample project here.

Using the package

With Serilog.Extensions.Hosting installed and configured, you can write log messages directly through Serilog or any ILogger interface injected by .NET. All loggers will use the same underlying implementation, levels, and destinations.

Inline initialization

You can alternatively configure Serilog using a delegate as shown below:

    // dotnet add package Serilog.Settings.Configuration
builder.Services.AddSerilog((services, loggerConfiguration) => loggerConfiguration
    .ReadFrom.Configuration(builder.Configuration)
    .Enrich.FromLogContext()
    .WriteTo.Console())

This has the advantage of making builder's Configuration object available for configuration of the logger, but at the expense of ignoring Exceptions raised earlier in program startup.

If this method is used, Log.Logger is assigned implicitly, and closed when the app is shut down.

Showing the top 20 packages that depend on Serilog.Extensions.Hosting.

Packages Downloads
Serilog.AspNetCore
Serilog support for ASP.NET Core logging
 162
Serilog.AspNetCore
Serilog support for ASP.NET Core logging
 163
Serilog.AspNetCore
Serilog support for ASP.NET Core logging
 164
Serilog.AspNetCore
Serilog support for ASP.NET Core logging
 165
Serilog.AspNetCore
Serilog support for ASP.NET Core logging
 166
Serilog.AspNetCore
Serilog support for ASP.NET Core logging
 167
Serilog.AspNetCore
Serilog support for ASP.NET Core logging
 169
Serilog.AspNetCore
Serilog support for ASP.NET Core logging
 171
Serilog.AspNetCore
Serilog support for ASP.NET Core logging
 172
Serilog.AspNetCore
Serilog support for ASP.NET Core logging
 221
Serilog.AspNetCore
Serilog support for ASP.NET Core logging
 290
Serilog.AspNetCore
Serilog support for ASP.NET Core logging
 293
Serilog.AspNetCore
Serilog support for ASP.NET Core logging
 331
Serilog.AspNetCore
Serilog support for ASP.NET Core logging
 371
Serilog.AspNetCore
Serilog support for ASP.NET Core logging
 433
Serilog.AspNetCore
Serilog support for ASP.NET Core logging
 858
Serilog.AspNetCore.Plus
Serilog support for ASP.NET Core logging with some plus features
 251

.NET Framework 4.6.2

.NET Standard 2.1

.NET Standard 2.0

.NET 9.0

.NET 8.0

Version Downloads Last updated
10.0.0 145 11/29/2025
10.0.0-dev-02310 70 11/29/2025
10.0.0-dev-02309 57 11/29/2025
9.0.1-dev-02307 115 03/31/2025
9.0.0 185 12/17/2024
9.0.0-dev-02303 116 12/08/2024
9.0.0-dev-02301 107 12/08/2024
8.0.0 255 02/04/2024
8.0.0-dev-00145 140 07/22/2024
8.0.0-dev-00143 147 07/22/2024
8.0.0-dev-00140 145 07/22/2024
8.0.0-dev-00137 167 07/22/2024
7.0.0 154 02/05/2024
7.0.0-dev-00131 145 07/22/2024
7.0.0-dev-00129 137 07/22/2024
7.0.0-dev-00126 133 07/22/2024
5.1.0-dev-00123 174 07/22/2024
5.0.1 208 02/04/2024
5.0.1-dev-00113 151 07/22/2024
5.0.0 141 07/22/2024
5.0.0-dev-00108 135 07/22/2024
5.0.0-dev-00095 140 07/22/2024
5.0.0-dev-00094 145 07/22/2024
5.0.0-dev-00093 137 07/22/2024
4.2.1-dev-00092 137 07/22/2024
4.2.0 185 02/04/2024
4.2.0-dev-00079 147 07/22/2024
4.1.2 152 07/22/2024
4.1.2-dev-00062 157 07/22/2024
4.1.1 148 07/22/2024
4.1.1-dev-00058 162 07/22/2024
4.1.0 130 07/22/2024
4.1.0-dev-00054 146 07/22/2024
4.0.0 172 07/22/2024
4.0.0-dev-00051 155 07/22/2024
4.0.0-dev-00050 152 07/22/2024
3.1.0 138 07/22/2024
3.1.0-dev-00041 131 07/22/2024
3.1.0-dev-00037 144 07/22/2024
3.1.0-dev-00035 136 07/22/2024
3.0.0 129 07/22/2024
3.0.0-dev-00024 156 07/22/2024
3.0.0-dev-00019 131 07/22/2024
3.0.0-dev-00016 145 07/22/2024
3.0.0-dev-00015 147 07/22/2024
2.0.1-dev-00009 149 07/22/2024
2.0.1-dev-00007 153 07/22/2024
2.0.1-dev-00004 136 07/22/2024
2.0.0 142 07/22/2024
2.0.0-dev-00001 147 07/22/2024