As I’ve written posts on Serilog and Azure Storage recently, I thought I’d try to combine them both and use Azure table storage for the logging sink. Thankfully, I didn’t need to code anything myself, as this type of sink has already been written, see the AzureTableStorage sink.

If we take the basic code from Serilog revisited (now version 2.5) and Azure Table Storage and include the glue of AzureTableStorage. We get the following

• Add NuGet Package Serilog.Sinks.AzureTableStorage

var storageAccount = CloudStorageAccount.Parse(
   CloudConfigurationManager.GetSetting(
   "StorageConnectionString"));

Log.Logger = new LoggerConfiguration()
   .WriteTo.AzureTableStorage(storageAccount, storageTableName: "MyApp")
   .CreateLogger();

Log.Logger.Information("Application Started");

for (var i = 0; i < 10; i++)
{
   Log.Logger.Information("Iteration {I}", i);
}

Log.Logger.Information("Exiting Application");

Without the storageTableName we’ll have the table LogEventEntity as the default table name. That’s all there is to it, now we’re sending our log entries into the cloud.