appsettings configuration

[mihaimyh]

Hello,

Can this sink be configured using IConfiguration, basically from appsettings.json, similar how other sinks can be configured?

  "Serilog": {
    "Using": [
      "Serilog.Sinks.Console",
      "Serilog.Sinks.File"
    ],
    "MinimumLevel": {
      "Default": "Debug",
      "Override": {
        "Microsoft": "Warning",
        "System": "Warning",
        "System.Net.Http": "Warning"
      }
    },
    "WriteTo": [
      {
        "Name": "Console",
        "Args": {
          "theme": "Serilog.Sinks.SystemConsole.Themes.AnsiConsoleTheme::Literate, Serilog.Sinks.Console",
          "outputTemplate": "[{Timestamp:HH:mm:ss} {MessageTemplate} {Level:u3}] {SourceContext} {Message:lj} {Exception}{NewLine}",
          "restrictedToMinimumLevel": "Information"
        }
      }
    ],
    "Enrich": [
      "FromLogContext",
      "WithMachineName",
      "WithThreadId",
      "WithProcessName"
    ]
  }

[iwillspeak]

It seems like you can configure this from appsettings to a degree. I believe this is because the appsettings configuration is defined by the available extension methods.

We have the following configuration:

{
  "Serilog": {
    "WriteTo:Otel": {
      "Name": "OpenTelemetry",
      "Args": {
        "endpoint": "http://localhost:4317",
        "protocol": "Grpc"
      }
    }
  }
}

And that works. The main issue is we then tried:

      "Args": {
        // .... 
        "batchingOptions": {
          "batchSizeLimit": 200,
          "period": "00:00:03",
          "queueLimit": 10000
        }

And this doesn't seem to work. I think this is because batching options aren't available for the extension methods.