No log output on Azure Web Site

[simontaylor81]

I'm testing out deploying an asp.net 5 app on Azure websites, but I'm having trouble getting any log output from the application. The azure docs say you just need to write to System.Diagnostics.Trace, but that doesn't seem to work. I tried Console.WriteLine as well for good measure, but no dice.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Clone this repo: https://github.com/simontaylor81/AspNet5TraceTest (this is a very simple app that just writes to System.Diagnostics.Trace on every request).
2. Deploy to Azure websites (e.g. using Visual Studio's publish option).
3. Enable verbose application logging for the site in the Azure portal.
4. View the application log somehow (e.g. in VS, command line, portal or kudu).
5. Browse to the site to make a request (which should trigger the Trace call).
6. Nothing appears in the log.

Is this something that should be working? I may be missing something in the Azure config, but I've tried pretty much everything without much success.

[Tratcher]

aspnet/Logging#218

[mgolois]

Has this issue been resolved? or any work around?

[davidfowl]

Trace.WriteLine won't work in azure because ASP.NET sites don't read web.config (no config hierarchy),

[DavidKarlas]

@mgolois Workaround I'm using atm... Install Serilog.Framework.Logging NuGet package...

Add this code:

if (System.IO.Directory.Exists("D:\\home\\LogFiles\\application\\"))
{
    loggerFactory.AddSerilog(new LoggerConfiguration().WriteTo.File("D:\\home\\LogFiles\\application\\YourAppName.txt", fileSizeLimitBytes: 20 * 1024 * 1024).CreateLogger());
}

Inside public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env, ILoggerFactory loggerFactory) method.

Then you can connect with FTP client and download file... Unfortunately it's saying file used by another process(I should probably find way for Serilog to share read access...). But for now I prefer to just open Azure console and do "cp YourAppName.txt LogFileCopy.txt" and download LogFileCopy.txt...

I also noticed that Log Streaming was working... But it's not working anymore at this point(maybe since I tried to access via FTP) :(

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