Filter Serilog logs to different sinks depending on context source?

Question

I have a .NET Core 2.0 application in which I successfully use Serilog for logging. Now, I would like to log some database performance statistics to a separate sink (they ar

Answer 1

Writing only entityframework log to a file is done below but we need to install Serilog.Filters.Expressions nuget package

"Serilog": {
    "MinimumLevel": {
      "Default": "Debug",
      "Override": {
        "Microsoft": "Warning",
        "System": "Warning",
        "Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore": "Information"
      }
    },
    "WriteTo": [
      {
        "Name": "Logger",
        "Args": {
          "configureLogger": {
            "Filter": [
              {
                "Name": "ByIncludingOnly",
                "Args": {
                  "expression": "StartsWith(SourceContext, 'Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore')"
                }
              }
            ],
            "WriteTo": [
              {
                "Name": "File",
                "Args": {
                  "path": "C:\\LOGS\\TestService_EF_.json",
                  "outputTemplate": "{Timestamp:yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.fff zzz} [{Level:u3}] {Message:lj}{NewLine}{Exception}",
                  "rollingInterval": "Day",
                  "retainedFileCountLimit": 7
                }
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      }
    ]
  }