Serilog .write(logevent) using mssqlserver sink

Question

Am reading log data (created using serilog from other apps) from a message queue (using rabbitmq) & want to write these to sql server table using serilog mssqlserver sink in a windows service.

Am attempting to go about this using the .Write(LogEvent) method in the serilog api.

Am struggling on the following parameters to populate from the data in the queue:

• LogEventLevel level
• IEnumerable <LogEventProperty> properties

Does anyone have a nice example of how to use this method with above params?

Answer 1

When you write the events to the message queue, use CompactJsonFormatter to create the JSON, from https://github.com/serilog/serilog-formatting-compact .

Then, to read them back out as Serilog events, use LogEventReader from https://github.com/serilog/serilog-formatting-compact-reader .