Serilog events viewer

Visual Studio Code Extention to inspect serilog events

This vscode extention allows inspection of logs created with serilog sinks here: https://github.com/serilog/serilog-sinks-mongodb.

Search in vscode pallete for "Inspect Serilog events"

As connection string format use following:

mongodb://user:pass@localhost:27017/db?authSource=admin&readPreference=primary&directConnection=true&ssl=false

note the db after last '/'
use %nn for special characters in the password

authSource=admin is optional if you define a user in the schema

Preview

Features:

- filter by time frame, level, content
- filter by expresion (similar to where clause in SQL)
- persist config file for future inspection
- shortcuts:
    - 'f' toggle filter panel
    - 'esc' toggle expression filtering
    - inside expression editor 'ctrl-up' & 'ctrl-down' sets previous or next expression in current session history
    - 'a' move time-frame back
    - 'x' move time-frame forward    
    - 'e' filter by level error
    - 'w' filter by level warning
    - 'd' filter by level debug
    - 'i' filter by level info
    - 'q' filter by level info
    - 'c' clear filter

Expression editor

Properties contains keys as configured by application in the C# project
use ' for string
examples:
-> date(UtcTimeStamp) >= '2021-09-25' and date(UtcTimeStamp) <= '2021-10-02'
-> Level in ('Error')
-> Level in ('Error') or Properties.ThreadId in (5,14)

Serilog setup in C# project

Add serilog sink with one of:

$ dotnet add package Serilog.Sinks.MongoDB --version 5.1.1
PM> Install-Package Serilog.Sinks.MongoDB -Version 5.1.1

or in .csproj:

<PackageReference Include="Serilog.Sinks.MongoDB" Version="5.1.1" />


 var logger = new LoggerConfiguration()
                .MinimumLevel.Debug()
                .Enrich.FromLogContext()
                .Enrich.WithProperty("Origin", "Sample ingest")
                .Enrich.WithAssemblyName()
                .Enrich.WithCorrelationId()
                .Enrich.WithMemoryUsage()
                .Enrich.WithProcessId()
                .Enrich.WithThreadId()
                .WriteTo.Conditional(_ => true, wt => wt.Console())
                .WriteTo.MongoDBBson(cfg =>
                {
                    // custom MongoDb configuration
                    //var mongoDbSettings = new MongoClientSettings
                    //{
                    //    UseTls = false,
                    //    AllowInsecureTls = true,
                    //    Credential = MongoCredential.CreateCredential("DBNAME", "USER", "PASSWORD"),
                    //    Server = new MongoServerAddress("127.0.0.1",27017)
                    //};

                    var mongoDbInstance = new MongoClient(
                        "mongodb://USER:PASSWORD@127.0.0.1:27017/")
                    .GetDatabase("DBNAME");

                    // sink will use the IMongoDatabase instance provided
                    cfg.SetMongoDatabase(mongoDbInstance);
                })
                .CreateLogger();

Bug reports or issues

Bug reports or issues can be reported here

Test with a fake log producer

Clone https://github.com/LucaGabi/VSE-Serilog-events-viewer.git

Inside fake-logs-producer/seqcli-dev/src/Roastery/Program.cs change these lines (24,25):

private const string ConnectionString = "...";
private const string DB = "...";

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