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Serilog vs NLog

Thomas Ardal on March 25, 2020

Serilog is often referred to as the new logging framework on the .NET platform, while NLog is considered "the old one" (together with log4net). Wit...
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Mark Davies

I remember first hearing about Serilog back in 2016 (i think) it sounded like an amazing idea, at the time I was using Log4Net which let's face it was a .Net implementation of a Java library, and as you say it treated logs as just a concatonated string which made it almost impossible to parse, I have no experience of NLog, but I'll check it out, thanks for thie blog post!