Azure App Insights logging to both Exceptions and Traces in .Net core

Question

I am looking for a way to log into both Traces and Exceptions. It seems it is easier to track if I log into both and looks like everyone prefers it. Unless there is a reason not to.

Logger.LogWarning(ex, "Audit failed");
Logger.LogWarning("Audit failed");

The first one logs into exceptions while the second one logs into traces. I would have to add it like this to a lot of places to log it into both. Any other way I missed?

Answer 1

We usually use 2 Logger.LogWarning() methods if we want to send logs both into traces and exceptions.

There is no direct way to do that. You can consider writing an extension method which includes the 2 methods Logger.LogWarning(ex, "Audit failed"); Logger.LogWarning("Audit failed");. Then you can only call this Extension methods once and send logs into both traces and exceptions. The Extension methods like below:

public static class MyCustomLogger
{

    //define an extension method.
    public static void Custom_LogWarning(this ILogger logger, string msg)
    {
        //send this log into traces table
        logger.LogWarning(msg);

        //send this log into exceptions table
        logger.LogWarning(new Exception(), msg);
    }
}

Then you can use this extension method like below:

logger.Custom_LogWarning("it is a message from my custom log method...");