如何从Service Fabric外部将日志发送到ServiceEventSource？

Question

I'm not even sure if this is possible but I have my Service Fabric microservices sending log information to ServiceEventSource by using:

ServiceEventSource.Current.ServiceMessage(this.Context, "this is my log message");

My external (non-Service Fabric) application consumes the Stateless WebAPI (Service Fabric) but it currently logs to a text file. Is there a way to have my external applications somehow also log to ServiceEventSource so I don't have to look in both places?

Answer 1

Simply share the ServiceEventSource class with your external application. You could do this by simply sharing the code or by packaging it in a NuGet package or by referencing the built .dll in your external application.

A word of caution: EventSource and ETW logging in general is very picky. Your definition of the EventSource really should be identical in both places, our it will very likely not work at all, or fail in strange and hard to understand ways.