MinimumLevel setting is ignored while submitting the logs to dashboard

[jbulowski]

Hello,

first of all i would like to apologize that I'm posting this issue here,
but the serilog exceptionless extension project doesn't include the issues page.

I'm initializing logger with serilog like following

Log.Logger = new LoggerConfiguration()
                .MinimumLevel.Verbose()
                .WriteTo.Exceptionless(exceptionlessKey, exceptionlessUrl)
                .WriteTo.File(@"c:\logs\temp_logs.txt")
                .CreateLogger();

and while all the logs appear in the log file, I don't get logs below the Warning level in my dashboard.

I am using a self hosted version of excetionless and found the line that couses this

https://github.com/serilog/serilog-sinks-exceptionless/blob/master/src/Serilog.Sinks.Exceptionless/Sinks/Exceptionless/ExceptionlessClientExtensions.cs#L33

On this line the Constants.SourceContextPropertyName isn't getting found and because of it, it defaults to Warning and bypasses the inital setting (in Exceptionless.Models.SettingsDictionary.GetMinLogLevel()).

How do I fix it?

Thanks in advance

[niemyjski]

That's really weird that there is no issues showing there, I'm not sure if the serilog team turned that off or not. I think you may be running into the clients default minimum log level until server settings are set: https://github.com/exceptionless/Exceptionless.Net/blob/master/src/Exceptionless/Configuration/ExceptionlessConfiguration.cs#L209-L216 Does calling this resolve this issue? Also do you have a default log level set in project settings?

I'd also look into why your SourceContextPropertyName isn't being set. Are you only injecting ILogger or ILogger<T>? Or are you not passing a name to ILoggerFactory.CreateLogger("name")?

[jbulowski]

Calling SetDefaultMinLogLevel doesn't change anything.
And I'm only injecting ILogger like it's shown in the code snippet.

There is no settings in project setting for exceptionless.
On the server side, the MinimumLevel is set to Debug.

[niemyjski]

Can you try enabling client logging and seeing what could be happening: https://exceptionless.com/docs/clients/dotnet/troubleshooting/

[jbulowski]

I've enabled client logging and it's not logging anything into the specified file.
What I've found is that with the version 3.1.3 of the Serilog.Sinks.Exceptionless package everything works fine.
I get the Debug and Information logs like I did before I updated the package, so I'm just gonna stick with this version.
I guess you can close this issue.

Thanks for quick responses though.

[niemyjski]

Can you do a diff of that sink with the next version so we can know what's changed for you. It would be great to figure this out and get you on the latest version. Others may be running into it as well.

[niemyjski]

Looks like this is the only commit which changed deps: exceptionless/serilog-sinks-exceptionless@ee28d4a and here is all the client changes: v4.5.0...v4.6.2 (lots of changes). Any chance you could upgrade and enable the serilog self logger. Also if you could reproduce in a small sample app of ours I'd be more than happy to debug it.

[yuefengkai]

#260 (comment)
I also encountered the same problem, using Net6 miniApi cannot write logs below Warn level
No such problem with 3.1.3

[niemyjski]

@yuefengkai Can you try this #259 (comment)

[ZhangYiQiu]

I'm having the same problem, WriteTo.Exceptionless doesn't work. It resumed working after I manually set ExceptionlessClient.Default.Configuration.SetDefaultMinLogLevel(Exceptionless.Logging.LogLevel.Info);. But I think it should automatically use the MinimumLevel configured in appsettings.json without me having to manually SetDefaultMinLogLevel

"Serilog": {
    "MinimumLevel": {
      "Default": "Information"
    }
}

The version I'm using

.Net6 MVC
Exceptionless.AspNetCore 4.8.0
Serilog.Sinks.Exceptionless 3.1.5

[niemyjski]

@ZhangYiQiu Would you be willing to submit a pr for this behavior change here (https://github.com/exceptionless/serilog-sinks-exceptionless)

[niemyjski]

@ejsmith Any objections for trying to pick up the default log level from different logging providers and just using it for SetDefaultMinLogLevel? Last call to SetDefaultMinLogLevel wins.

[ejsmith]

I think you want to control these things separately, but agree that it is confusing. I think just because I want to see info level logging in my application log doesn't mean that I want to send all info level logs to Exceptionless.