Logging and Monitoring in ASP.NET Core 6

Good logging and monitoring is critical to enable support for your web applications. This course will teach you how to create helpful log entries, write them to places to support analysis, and use logs and health checks to monitor your application.

Identifying issues in your web applications before your customers experience them is a key capability in modern web apps. In this course, Logging and Monitoring in ASP.NET Core, you’ll learn to create useful log entries and enable monitoring in your web application. First, you’ll explore the basics of getting log entries created, including information in them, and standard entries like exceptions and HTTP request information. Next, you’ll discover how to write those entries to places that leverage the value in the log entries you’ve created. Finally, you’ll learn how to set up monitoring in your application using health checks along with your log entries. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of logging and monitoring needed to enable simple ongoing support of your application.

• Course Overview 1min
• Getting Started with Logging 19mins
• Using Log Levels and Applying Filters 31mins
• Exception Handling and Request Logging 39mins
• Including and Excluding Information 37mins
• Log Destinations 32mins
• Enabling Monitoring 35mins
• Enabling Traceability 27mins