Enable Serilog's Selflog from config file

Question

The docs only show how to enable Selflog programmatically. I would like to enable/disable it by just updating the config file.

Is there a way to enable selflog from config file the same we do to define loggers and sinks?

CodingMytra · Accepted Answer · 2022-09-27 08:49:51Z

6

There is no way provided by Serilog but this how I have solved it.

Create a configuration in appsettings.json.
```
{
  "EnableSerilogSelfLogs": "false",
}
```

Read configuration in program.cs and call the required method.

if(enableSelfLogs)
{
   var fileName = File.AppendText(Path.Combine(logDir, "_SerilogSelfLogs.txt"));
   Serilog.Debugging.SelfLog.Enable(TextWriter.Synchronized(fileName));
}

hope it helps.

answered Sep 27, 2022 at 8:49

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