The log4net Tutorial: Logging in C# (hands-on from beginner to advanced)
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This video will teach you how to use log4net without fear. Instead of copying and pasting confusing config files that cause more problems than they solve, watch this video and you will understand how to make log4net do exactly what you want.
You will be taken through step-by-step through the following sections:
1. Getting Started - installing log4net, initial configuration and getting it running in your code.
2. .NET 4.5 Changes - What additional options you have if you are using .NET 4.5.
3. Appenders - How to log to different data repositories like SQL Server, text files and more.
4. Filters - How to log only the data you want to capture while ignoring the rest. This will cover both the simple options as well as the more advanced possibilities.
5. Log Patterns - Learn how to capture a number of different pieces of data, what the pitfalls are of some data points and how to send data to your data source.
6. Advanced Logging - Take logging to the next level by capturing custom data in your own fields. Even capture data at the time of the error without any extra configuration.
7. Wrap Up - Review what has been learned and identify how to move forward with log4net.
This video course is easy for a beginner to get started with but even if you didn't know anything coming in, if you follow the steps outlined in the video, you will become an advanced log4net user by the end of the video. The entire video is a hands-on demonstration of not just what to do but how to do it. You will be able to follow along with the video with ease. Also provided is a link to the source code for this video. The source code has been tagged at the end of each section to indicate where you can revert to in order to see the code at any point in the video.
Course Resource:
Course code: github.com/TimCorey/Log4netTu...
log4net Code Project article: www.codeproject.com/Articles/1...
log4net homepage: logging.apache.org/log4net/
Video Quick Use Guide:
0:00 - Intro
2:53 - Getting Started: Creating console application
4:39 - Adding NuGet reference
5:25 - Configuration
18:54 - Assembly reference
20:48 - Creating log reference (instance) for each class or entire application
25:13 - Quick recap
25:27 - Log messages
27:10 - Note on System.Reflection
27:45 - Creating LogHelper
32:40 - Appenders: File Appender - write logs in text file
37:27 - Appenders: Rolling File Appender - control log text file file size and log file quantity
44:01 - Appenders: Ado .Net Appender
54:50 - Appenders: Other Appenders
58:32 - Filters: Log message Levels
1:04:46 - Filters: Level Range filter
1:07:33 - Filters: String Match filter, filter message fall through, filter order
1:10:40 - Filters: Level Match filter
1:12:26 - Conversion pattern
1:14:15 - Conversion pattern: Log Message info
1:20:29 - Log Message length
1:23:51 - Log Message :Custom info
1:29:14 - Log Message: Dynamic variable info
1:33:11 - Summary and concluding remarks
Requires a great amount of patience to explain in detail. Great work! and a big thank you.
This is one of the most thorough and well taught tutorials I have ever watched. I read the article on Code Project and struggled to implement log4net and all these advanced features. This video really filled in the cracks and was a great time saver. Thank you Tim. I will be subscribing to your other videos and articles.
Thanks so much Tim, six years old video already, and yet very informative with my code. I never used this Log4Net before, so I needed to get my head around it fast for use in my current role!
Great!
Timothy, you've done a great job in diving into the details of log4net.
One minor comment though, is next time make the text just a bit bigger.
One of the best tutorial out there on log4Net. Instead of just teaching on how to make it work by some magic configuration and code, this tutorial went into details on how things work and how to customize it to our requirements. That gives a lot of confidence and comfort in using this framework than copying the configurations from random sites.
As others mentioned, the fonts are too small and if you are watching it on smaller device (even my 13" laptop display is small), you will have hard time watching it. I had to zoom my browser to 300%, and since most of the action is in top left screen that worked, but was awkward.
You are very clear in your explanations, without taking anything for granted. Thank you.
Bro this is seriously a 200 bucks worth tutorial. Thanks so much for giving it for free. People like you make newbies in the IT community grow and thrive.
Already added you in my Favorite playlist. Such an awesome video, cannot be simpler then this .
Its already over midnight and I cannot stop myself to finish the tutorial.
Sure, time to rest/relax, as I know where to go to find the most satisfying answers, for my unsolved queries. thank you for being ingenious.
great video. finished it. what I especially love is the fact that you made a branch of each section!
Thanks!
Thank you Tim, for making an excellent tutorial on log4net. Worth my time watching this. Please keep up the good work.
You are most welcome. Thanks for watching.
Awesome tutorial, very clear and concise , I learned log4Net in such a short period of time.
This is a very good video for those who do not have knowledge on how to use Log4Net. Kudos to Timothy!!!
Thanks for the video. It is simply awesome and useful. I heard of log4net but I don't know anything on how to use it but after watching this video I can simply start using it
One of the best tutorials i've ever seen, Thank you.
Thank you so much! I normally don't comment on CZcams videos, but you deserve one, especially after attentively sitting through the entire video. I'm a visual learner and what you did made all the research I did on my own click. If only you spent time on the SmtpAppender, because that alongside of the AdoNetAppender are the ones my company is using. Either way, you've gotten me 96% of the way there!! Thanks again.
0:00 - Intro
2:53 - Getting Started: Creating console application
4:39 - Adding NuGet reference
5:25 - Configuration
18:54 - Assembly reference
20:48 - Creating log reference (instance) for each class or entire application
25:13 - Quick recap
25:27 - Log messages
27:10 - Note on System.Reflection
27:45 - Creating LogHelper
32:40 - Appenders: File Appender - write logs in text file
37:27 - Appenders: Rolling File Appender - control log text file file size and log file quantity
44:01 - Appenders: Ado .Net Appender
54:50 - Appenders: Other Appenders
58:32 - Filters: Log message Levels
1:04:46 - Filters: Level Range filter
1:07:33 - Filters: String Match filter, filter message fall through, filter order
1:10:40 - Filters: Level Match filter
1:12:26 - Conversion pattern
1:14:15 - Conversion pattern: Log Message info
1:20:29 - Log Message length
1:23:51 - Log Message :Custom info
1:29:14 - Log Message: Dynamic variable info
1:33:11 - Summary and concluding remarks
I usually don't do these for videos, that already have time codes in the video description, but I figured that this was kinda long video and the time stamps could do with an update, so there... :)
P.S.
Hello Tim. If you will consider to update the time codes in the video description, I believe that they have to be in chronological order. Meaning that they have to start from zero:zero and there cannot be any other time code before that. That is, if you care for your video timeline to be split up in chapters :)
I noticed, that if you have other time stamps before zero:zero mark, CZcams wont do that for you.
Example: Your video "Top 10 Hidden Gems in Visual Studio"
I have found the same, the automated chapter function has to start at 0:00 for best success.
This is a high quality video tutorial. Thanks for taking the time to create this. It is awesome :). Really appreciate it.
Excellent tutorial by Tim: addressing that critical point where the rubber, actually, hits the road ― ie where an end-Developer is indeed getting hands-on with an SDK..and has the VS IDE open in front of him/her to do some coding.
Thank you!
This video is great. Timothy, thank you so much for sharing it. :)
Thanks Timothy, very concise and very well presented.
IF you go through with this tutorial, it takes about 2 and half hour (by stopping and continue during the video) and it totally worth it. I do appreciate that Tim, its a great tutorial. I couldn't learn more in 2 and a half hour about log4net. Cheers.
i saw it just because this comment, and it is amazing video!
Excellent. Glad it was worth the time.
Sorry to be off topic but does someone know a trick to log back into an instagram account..?
I stupidly forgot the login password. I appreciate any help you can give me
Thanks Tim! very helpful illustration.
Thanks Tim! Best video covering log4net out here.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks, Timothy a lot for this tutorial. Excellent presentation! :) May God bless you.
Again you made something that looks complicated and difficult easy to understand and use. Just what I needed for an application I am writing, great tutorial!
Excellent! I'm glad it was helpful.
Very helpful. Thanks for taking the time to make this.
Amazing tutorial! Thanks Tim.
thank you tim for such a awesome Log4net tutorial!
You are welcome.
Very complete tutorial and well worth the hour. Even in this day in age. Cheers
Thank you!
One of the best tutorials in all of CZcams. Does not matter the topic, this is awesome!!!!!!
Yes man! The only thing you need to watch out for is the size of the text. It is very difficult to see!
killed a day on various guides, but everything was very superficial, like now we’ll make config the whole end of the guide, very cool, thanks
I'm glad this was helpful.
Great video. Gave me exactly what I needed, and even gave me some stuff I didn't know I needed. Keep it up and thank you.
You are most welcome. Thanks for watching.
Awesome tutorial, thanks so much for making it!
thanks for taking time creating this, it's been very helpful!
You are most welcome. Thanks for watching.
Thanks @
Tim, this video become my reference when ever i have issue in one of the projects i go to this video
You are welcome.
Well done! Thanks for creating this.
Yes a very good tutorial. An Excellent job. Did really help more than any other video.
Thanks for such a detailed video session.
Thank You so much for that video. It really helped me to get to know with log4net
regards
So far very happy with what I've been learning. Although I wasn't too familiar with the SQL section I typed it in just to get familiar with it. I've no database server set up and I've never used stored procedures. It's obvious that's a whole subject in itself.
I'm glad you got a lot out of this video.
Very helpful video, well explained. Thanks for the good work
Tim, thanks a lot! Superb tutorial, exactly what I was looking for!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you - worth every minute!
Explained very clear to me, Much appreciate;
Thank you very much. Very helpful for a beginner!
Awesome tutorial Timothy. Thank you very much. :D :D
WOW! Excellent tutorial, Thanks Tim
You are most welcome. Thanks for watching.
Really, really, really good! Well paced, easy to follow, very detailed.
How to add log4net file path when we deploy on linux.
Such a great tutorial! still relevant today. I struggled a little with the database connection string before realizing 3 things I'd done wrong in App.config: (1) the data source, I don't think I have something called "ApplicationDB", instead I was able to use "(LocalDb)\MSSQLLocalDB", (2) the initial catalog - since I created my own database from scratch I needed to supply the name "MyLogger", (3) a series of typos (resulting from copy & paste) meant that my parameter names didn't match the ones in the stored procedure. Persistence was key, and I was rewarded in the end. Thanks Tim!
Thank you for sharing this. I'm sure it will help others! Keep up the great work!
Amazing content, a very well made tutorial!
Thank you mate!
You are welcome.
I've never used log4net before and found this tutorial very good and clear, great work on doing this for us. However I wish you had more tutorials as it was really easy to pause the video and follow along.
Any plans on doing a more advanced tutorial on log4net - e.g.. using .log4net files rather than .config etc. ? Keep up the great work!
This videos are so helpful, please upload more videos.
This is just awesome video - thank you so much for making it! It saved huge amount of time for me
Thank you again! Really useful video
Great video and tutorial itself. Thanks!
For those who look for quick links:
Log4net setup
4:35 -> Step 1: Add log4net package
5:25 -> Step 2: Add log4net configuration
18:54 -> Step 3: Add log4net assembly
20:47 -> Step 4: Create log4net log reference
25:30 -> Step 5: Log messages
27:56 -> Creating LogHelper
32:37 -> Appenders
1:04:46 -> Filters
1:14:13 -> Conversion pattern
No problem Timothy! Glad to help. :)
Thanks!
I thought: I need now some logger. I typed: C# logging. I saw: Tim Correy log4net tutorial 1:37h. I smiled :) Thank You Tim! Thanks to that tutorial I was able to find a really annoying bug in my app.
Awesome!
Awesome, Mind blowing ,Excellent Timothy, you've done a great job. worth the hour. Thank you very much :)
You are most welcome. Thanks for watching.
Thank you! Great tutorial. Getting the AdoNetAppender properly configured took a little effort including getting it to work with my local SQL server installation. SQL connection type and connection string values were tricky to get right depending on whether specific features were enabled or not. The samples on the Apache Log4net page and some experimentation got me to the finish line.
I'm glad you got it to work.
rick, I'm having the same issues can you share connection types you tried or what I can try?
Unbelievably useful! Thanks Tim
Excellent!
Thank you for your video Tim. :)
Wow, thank you so much. This is an amazing tutorial.. You are an awesome teacher - Subscribed.
You are most welcome. Thanks for watching.
Great video sir! It was very helpful! Thanks!
Best log4net content available on the internet. Really good, congratulations!
Thank you!
@@IAmTimCorey
Please let me know if you have content related to a transformation using log4net ? Because I need to put it in 3 environments. Development, Approval and Production.
Thanks a ton for this video, I was lost till I saw this video
Great video. Got here via your code project article.
Thanks a lot for such an amazing tutorial
Very useful tutorial. Let all the video tutorials will like it. Thanks!!
Thank you great illustration, while reading documentation, I came across this "If the BufferSize is set to a value less than or equal to 1 then no buffering will occur. The logging event will be delivered synchronously (depending on the Lossy and Evaluator properties). Otherwise the event will be buffered."
Yep. Not necessarily ideal for production but great for development.
This was amazing... thank you!
Wow! Well worth the time. Nice work!
Great session. Tim you covered everything.
Thanks!
So usefull, a really great tutorial! Thanks!
Thank you so much, you helped me with my "Software development tools" home assignment!
You are welcome.
Great tutorial. Thanks for posting! In a future article or video it would be great to see how to use Log4net in a multi-project solution where more than one project can be set as the startup (eg, a project to run as console and another to run as a windows forms, while other projects exist for the data layer, etc.). What I have found so far with this is that I have to duplicate both the LogHelper class as well as the the App.Config settings in each projects that can be set as the startup, which is less than ideal. If I try to relocate into a common project referenced by both, logging does not work at all. I don't know if this is a true limitation of Log4net or something I have not done correctly. Again, thanks for posting and I plan to view some of your other videos as well!
Great suggestion. I'll put that on the list. Thanks for watching.
New to Log4Net; Great Video!
This was a really useful video and full of interessting information! Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent Video. Thank you for the effort. It clarifies lots of things.
Hi Tim, Is it possible to not declare "private static readonly log4net.ILog log = LogHelper.Getlogger();" in every class but rather just call the helper which will declare and log the error, with the correct class name?
Excellent tutorial & greatly appreciated!
I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Thumbs up, excellent tutorial!
Thanks for this great tutorial. Unlike other books and tutorials that dump all the information on the viewer at once, you introduced a concept at a time with clear and easy to understand examples.
The only possible thing to complain about is that the text is too small. I was able to watch it on a 21 inch monitor, but not sure if I could do the same on a notebook.
Yep, the font size issue is one I know about but can't change in this video. All videos newer than it have the font size corrected though.
Clear concise video. Thanks
Thanks for this informative video. It helps a lot!
You are welcome.
As a first year student of computer science I must say this was amazing!, a clear and simple explanation . The web is full of information but when you new in the field you find your self opening more and more website for each second term you do not know and lose yourself. I tried to use written tutorials but it was my first time using app.confing and just this little problem made this confusing
I'm glad you found it useful. Tell your friends. ;-)
IAmTimCorey all ready posted it over study groups!
Awesome! Thanks for the support and the recommendation.
Thanks for this very useful video, I use NLog framework but not anymore, they are very similaire but log4net is more mature,
Excuse my english but I wanna say another thanks from Morocco, Casablanca :) I read your article before in codeproject but this video is more useful.
Great tutorial! Thanks a lot!
great job! Thanks Tim.
You are welcome.
Thank you IAMTimCorey.
You are welcome.
Excellent tutorial, Thanks!
You are welcome.
Thanks for the video Tim, it was great! Also is there any viewer tool to see logged messages ?
Great tutorial, clears all doubts.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for making this great tutorial.
You are welcome.
thank you very match, that's very helpful, thanks for your time pro
Thank you for your time keep the good work
You are welcome.
thank you soooo much Timothy
thats a really superior tutorial. *thumbsUP*
Thanks!
Great video! Thanks!
Nice tutorial. Thanks
omg you are such a good lecturer
This is great tutorial... Thank you. Subscribed.
You are welcome.
like your tutorial so much thank you very very useful and well covered
Great tutorial! Thanks a lot ! It's really helped me...!
Thanks for looking to Tim and trusting him to help build your skills.