Turn NLog on and off

Question

I recently started using NLog to log data in a table in my database. It seems to work perfectly fine.

Now I wanted to add a toggle in my app so I can quickly enable or disable all the Logging. Is there a nice and easy way to do that with NLog?

The only way I have found so far is having autoReload set to true and then letting a button comment out or back the NLog.config file. That feels very shady and cumbersome though and I was wondering if there is a better way to do it!

Answer 1

You could use

LogManager.DisableLogging();
LogManager.EnableLogging();

Another option:

LogManager.Factory.GlobalThreshold = LogLevel.Off; 

Which makes it possible to globally only log fatal errors etc.

Last, but not least, this could be configured on rule level, see LogManager.Configuration.LoggingRules then.