How can I get Logger.BeginScope to work with Application Insights?

Question

I've read somewhere that Application Insights should work with structured logs, and I'm trying to log data to Application Insights using ILogger's BeginScope:

using (_logger.BeginScope("Some really useful information"))
{
    // something something

    _logger.LogError("Oh no.");
}

However, when inspecting the trace in Application Insights, I'm not getting the log data from BeginScope, just "Oh no" in this case. This is a .NET Core 2.0 application. Is BeginScope not supported with the default implementation of Application Insights ILogger? Or am I missing something?

Answer 1

I fixed this problem by using Serilog with it's Application Insights sink. Worked perfectly.