Arebis.MvcDashboardLogging 0.9.1

Introduction

This component contains an ASP.NET Core MVC 6 item template consisting of:

• A DbContext schema for holding request log information in database,
• Request logging middleware to write failed request information to database,
• A dashboard to show and manage request log information.

Installation

To install the project item template (to be done once per developer machine):

dotnet new --install Arebis.MvcDashboardLogging

To add the package to an ASP.NET Core MVC 6 project, from the project folder:

dotnet new MvcDashboardLogging

Or from the the solution folder:

dotnet new MvcDashboardLogging -n <WebProjectName>

Setup

Once the package added to your project, add following service registrations in Program.cs or Startup.cs:

builder.Services.AddDbContext<MyMvcApp.Data.Logging.LoggingDbContext>(options =>
    options.UseSqlServer(
        builder.Configuration.GetConnectionString("DefaultConnection")));

builder.Services.AddScoped<MyMvcApp.Logging.RequestLogger>();

Next, register the request logging middleware with the following command:

app.UseArebisRequestLog()
    .LogSlowRequests()
    .LogExceptions()
    .LogNotFounds();

(Where "MyMvcApp" is the project name/namespace of your ASP.NET MVC App.)

Also make sure you have a route registered to handle ASP.NET MVC Areas:

app.MapControllerRoute(
    name: "area",
    pattern: "{area:exists}/{controller=Home}/{action=Index}/{id?}");

This route registration must be added before the default route registration.

Finally, start your ASP.NET MVC application and navigate to /MvcDashboardLogging. Run the database migrations if requested. On the Logs tab you can now find logs for all failed requests.