Basic setup

Get started

First make sure to install the package from nuget:

Install-Package serilog.sinks.elasticsearch

This will also install Serilog itself.

You will first need to create a logger. Normally you do this once at startup and place the logger inside your DI container.

var loggerConfig = new LoggerConfiguration()
    .MinimumLevel.Debug()
    .WriteTo.Elasticsearch(new ElasticsearchSinkOptions(new Uri("http://localhost:9200") ){
             AutoRegisterTemplate = true,
     });

var logger = loggerConfig.CreateLogger();

The above code will register one sink, the Elasticsearch sink, with a reference to the ES server located on the localhost and port 9200. We also set the option **AutoRegisterTemplate ** to true. This will create the correct mapping for us at startup.

Next, we will write some events to Serilog.

logger.Error(new Exception("test"), "An error has occurred.");
logger.Information("The {User} has just executed {Action}.", "username", "actionName");

This will write two events to Serilog which will deliver those to the registered sinks. In this case the Elasticsearch one and your two events will end up in Elasticsearch.