Multi-line events

[Kevin Ashton]

Hi,

I was wondering how you would handle events that have hard line-breaks in them? (I currently have modified the seq.js to handle it), but I am wondering if this might be a valid feature request?

I think to explain it better I need should give my use-case.

I have a system that works similar to Elmah where the events are logged to Seq, and I want to display the items something like:

Error: {Exception Message}

Error Type: {Exception Type}

Stack: {Exception Stack Trace}

Cookies: {Cookies Collection}

Form Variables: {Form Variables Collection}

Server Variables: {Server variables Collection}

etc.

[nblum...@nblumhardt.com]

Hi Kevin!

Presently the best way to tackle this with Seq is to use a property for each of these items. The display for Exception already shows the multi-line stacktrace, messages, inner exceptions and so-on; attaching the others to the events individually should round this out.

To do this you might use the following type of statement in Serilog:

Log.ForContext(new[] {

  new PropertyEnricher("Cookies", cookies, true),

  new PropertyEnricher("FormVariables", formVariables, true),

  new PropertyEnricher("ServerVariables", serverVariables, true)

}).Error(ex, "An error occurred");

(The additional 'true' parameter will cause the values to be serialized rather than ToString()ed.

Hope this helps, let us know how you go!

Cheers,
Nick