Logging into Elasticsearch using Serilog and viewing logs in Kibana | .NET Core Tutorial

Hello everybody I'm Nick and in this video I will show you how you can very easily get started with logging into Elasticsearch in your .NET core application. We won't go in depth on how Elasticsearch works and why it is a good fit for a log sink but instead I am going to show you how you can quickly use Serilog to replace Microsoft's built in logging mechanism and start pushing logs into Elasticsearch, which you can then use Kibana to view and analyse. There will be a second video coming showing some of the cool stuff that you can do in Kibana with those logs.

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[ianf]

Thank you - I have been trying to get started with elasticsearch logging for a while without success. This was the video where I finally got it :) Great video, and just the right level of detail to your explanations.

[paragsarin]

I really appreciate the way you explain things, keep up the good work. thanks

[lemurza]

Very nice. Excited for the full elastic search video

[evilroxxx]

Nick, you can also add serilog as a default logging provider into Microsoft extensions logging. So you won’t have to change from the ms implementation of Ilogger<> into serilog logger and continue to record your logs in the serilog format.

[romanhrytskiv]

Thank you for this video.
TIP: you can search trough commands history in terminal emulator with CTRL+R and then typing, way faster that up/down arrows.

[ahmeddan]

Thanks and great job. waiting for your next Elastic search video

[daa]

These videos are great! I am learning so much!

[Pampua]

Hello, first of all congratulations for your videos, they are simple and very clear and always touch on very interesting topics, also I really like your way of explaining, you can see that you love what you do and that you do it well Today I saw this video, and it would be nice if you made one on elastic stack and how would you structure your logs (real cases) in case of using filebeat. Great, keep it up

[mestrestephane]

Excellent explanation. Thank you Nick.

[piotrkowalski]

log templates with custom properties are working when using ILogger<T> interface as well

Nick, another perfect video
Thank you so much!
You're the guy!

[denisosipenko]

Thanks a lot. Really useful knowledge 👍

[clearlyunwell]

This is really great, thank you for all the videos you make - please never stop making videos and remember: keep coding :)

[shreneekpatil]

Nick, you are simply awesome, i don't it is coincident or what, your all videos are linked to my current work like. Net core, serilog, reflections, redis cache, elastic search, system. Text.Json, logger etc etc... Thanks a lot for helping in directely us to building a Product

[matiascasag]

Awesome! Thanks!. Waiting for the Elasticsearch tuto. I have a question for you.
Does this logging to elasticsearch have a retry in case the service is down or in case of error trying to log?

[ricardo]

Hi Nick, thanks for the video. Are you still planning on doing a video on ElasticSearch only (or maybe OpenSearch)? That'd be awesome:)

[mortware]

This is great - thank you.
I'm really interested in trying it out myself, but I came unstuck with the docker/yaml stuff. I can't get hold of your repo as there seems to be a problem with the invite system. Can you help?

[benlewies]

Would be great if you would cover the NEST library as well

[sps]

Nick Please do a tutorial on MS Search integration.

[trocomerlo]

Great content. Is it possible to configure a retention policy of the logs in elastic search? So like if you want to keep only the last 2 months of logs.