Logging

ASP.NET Core logging on Cloud Foundry

All apps I’ve ever worked on have some sort of logging going on for various reasons, mostly to keep track of whats going on or debugging, but it’s all the same. Logs are needed to see what your code is up to.

Cloud Foundry is very explicit about how an app should write its logs. As you can see in the documentation, apps must write to stdout or stderr.

For C# that means we can use the static methods on the Console to write our logs. Couldn’t be easier. But… now our code is littered with these Console.Write... lines all over the place!