I have a Azure Function App in .net core 6, I was already using Microsoft.Extension.Logging for logging and everything was working perfectly, now I have a requirement to support structured logging so I decided to use Serilog, but after configuring Serilog logs are getting logged twice in application insights, ,
This is my startup.cs configuration for Serilog
public override void Configure(IFunctionsHostBuilder builder)
{
var telemetryConfiguration = TelemetryConfiguration.CreateDefault();
telemetryConfiguration.ConnectionString = Settings.ApplicationInsightsConnectionString;
// Create and initialize the dependency tracking module
var dependencyModule = new DependencyTrackingTelemetryModule();
dependencyModule.Initialize(telemetryConfiguration);
// Create the custom telemetry processor
var telemetryProcessorChainBuilder = telemetryConfiguration.DefaultTelemetrySink.TelemetryProcessorChainBuilder;
var configuration = builder.Services.BuildServiceProvider().GetService<IConfiguration>();
telemetryProcessorChainBuilder.Use(next => new CustomTelemetryProcessor(next, configuration));
// Build the telemetry processor chain
telemetryProcessorChainBuilder.Build();
Log.Logger = new LoggerConfiguration()
.WriteTo.ApplicationInsights(telemetryConfiguration, TelemetryConverter.Traces)
.CreateLogger();
builder.Services.AddSingleton(telemetryConfiguration);
builder.Services.AddSingleton(typeof(IAppLogger<>), typeof(AppLogger<>));
// rest of the code...
}
If I remove below code from Statup.cs then it’s not logging twice and only Serilog logs are shown, but I can’t remove that code as I also need custom telemetry processor.
So basically when I register custom telemetry processor it also activating Microsoft Logger and that’s why I’m getting logs twice as per my understating.
// Create and initialize the dependency tracking module
var dependencyModule = new DependencyTrackingTelemetryModule();
dependencyModule.Initialize(telemetryConfiguration);
// Create the custom telemetry processor
var telemetryProcessorChainBuilder = telemetryConfiguration.DefaultTelemetrySink.TelemetryProcessorChainBuilder;
var configuration = builder.Services.BuildServiceProvider().GetService<IConfiguration>();
telemetryProcessorChainBuilder.Use(next => new CustomTelemetryProcessor(next, configuration));
// Build the telemetry processor chain
telemetryProcessorChainBuilder.Build();
How I can register custom telemetry processor with Serilog, without activating Microsoft logger?