ASP.NET Core: Health Checks and Logging

Learn the basics of logging and health checks in ASP.NET Core. This helps you find security issues, optimization opportunities, and where problems have occurred.

Introduction

• You should care about logging and health checks
• What you should know
• Prerequisites and setup
• Touring the sample app

1. ASP.NET Core Logging

• Understanding ILogger
• What's in the template?
• Adding log entries
• Understanding log levels
• Configuring logging
• Logging to files
• Logging to Azure
• Using log scopes
• Challenge: Add logging to the sample app
• Solution: Add logging to the sample app
• Summary of ASP.NET logging

2. ASP.NET Core Health Checks

• Health checks explained
• Configuring health checks
• Adding health checks
• Adding database health checks
• Creating a UI
• Securing health check endpoints
• Challenge: Add a health check to the sample app
• Solution: Add a health check to the sample app
• Summary of health checks