steeltoe serilog dynamic logger not working after migrating to steeltoe 3.0 - vmware

Question

I was using steeltoe 2.4.3 in my .net core 3.1 application. Recently I updated steeltoe packages to v3.0.1 and it looks like logs are not coming in serilog format. I am not able to figure out what is wrong. I do have the serilog configuration in my appsettings like below.
{
"management": {
"endpoints": {
"path": "/myexample/cloudfoundryapplication",
"cloudfoundry": {
"validateCertificates": false
},
"actuator": {
"exposure": {
"include": [ "*" ],
"exclude": [ "env", "refresh" ]
}
}
}
},
"Serilog": {
"MinimumLevel": {
"Default": "Information",
"Override": {
"Microsoft": "Information",
"Steeltoe": "Information"
}
},
"WriteTo": [
{
"Name": "Console",
"Args": {
"formatter": "Serilog.Formatting.Compact.CompactJsonFormatter, Serilog.Formatting.Compact"
}
},
{
"Name": "Trace",
"Args": {
"formatter": "Serilog.Formatting.Compact.CompactJsonFormatter, Serilog.Formatting.Compact"
}
}
],
"Enrich": [ "FromLogContext" ]
},
"AllowedHosts": "*"
}
Program.cs is like below
public static class Program
{
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
Activity.DefaultIdFormat = ActivityIdFormat.W3C;
CreateHostBuilder(args).Build().Run();
}
public static IHostBuilder CreateHostBuilder(string[] args) =>
Host.CreateDefaultBuilder(args)
.AddCloudFoundryConfiguration()
.ConfigureLogging((builderContext, loggingBuilder) =>
{
// Add Serilog Dynamic Logger
loggingBuilder.AddDynamicSerilog();
})
.AddCloudFoundryActuators()
.ConfigureWebHostDefaults(webBuilder =>
{
webBuilder.UseStartup<Startup>();
});
}
My .csproj looks iike below.
<PropertyGroup>
<TargetFramework>netcoreapp3.1</TargetFramework>
<GenerateDocumentationFile>true</GenerateDocumentationFile>
</PropertyGroup>
<ItemGroup>
<None Update="wwwroot\**\*;*.yml">
<CopyToPublishDirectory>PreserveNewest</CopyToPublishDirectory>
</None>
</ItemGroup>
<ItemGroup>
<PackageReference Include="Serilog.Sinks.Trace" Version="2.1.0" />
<PackageReference Include="Serilog.Formatting.Compact" Version="1.1.0" />
<PackageReference Include="Steeltoe.Extensions.Logging.DynamicSerilogCore" Version="3.0.1" />
<PackageReference Include="Steeltoe.Management.CloudFoundryCore" Version="3.0.1" />
<PackageReference Include="Steeltoe.Extensions.Configuration.CloudFoundryCore" Version="3.0.1" />
</ItemGroup>
</Project>

Answer 1

AddDynamicSerilog doesn't (currently) add a console sink, try updating your code to look like this:
AddDynamicSerilog(new LoggerConfiguration().WriteTo.Console())
This PR will result in the Console sink being added automatically if no configuration is provided, and it will probably ship in Steeltoe 3.0.2 (no ETA yet)