Serilog.Sinks.GoogleCloudLogging

Serilog sink that writes events to Google Cloud Logging.

• Built for net6.0, net5.0, netstandard2.0
• Release Notes

Usage

Install package from Nuget:

dotnet add package Serilog.Sinks.GoogleCloudLogging

Configure in code:

var config = new GoogleCloudLoggingSinkOptions { ProjectId = "YOUR_PROJECT_ID" };
Log.Logger = new LoggerConfiguration().WriteTo.GoogleCloudLogging(config).CreateLogger();

Or configure with config file:

This requires the serilog-settings-configuration package.

"Serilog": {
  "Using": [ "Serilog.Sinks.GoogleCloudLogging" ],
  "MinimumLevel": "Information",
  "WriteTo": [
    {
      "Name": "GoogleCloudLogging",
      "Args": {
        "projectID": "PROJECT-ID-12345",
        "restrictedToMinimumLevel": "Information",
        "labels": {
          "foo": "bar"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

var config = new ConfigurationBuilder().AddJsonFile("appsettings.json", optional: true, reloadOnChange: true).Build();
Log.Logger = new LoggerConfiguration().ReadFrom.Configuration(config).CreateLogger();

• Serilog example for .NET 6: https://blog.datalust.co/using-serilog-in-net-6/

GCP Integration

Authentication

This library uses the Google Cloud .NET client and Application Default Credentials. The Logs Writer permission is required to send logs. There are several different ways to set credentials:

• GCE, GKE, Cloud Run, AppEngine and other managed services will have the Application Default Credentials set to the active service account for the resource and can be used without any additional configuration.