Real Time Log Monitoring by WatchDog

Introduction

WatchDog is a Realtime Message, Event, HTTP (Request & Response) and Exception logger and viewer for ASP.Net Core Web Apps and APIs. It allows developers log and view messages, events, http requests made to their web application and also exception caught during runtime in their web applications, all in Realtime. It leverages SignalR for real-time monitoring and LiteDb a Serverless MongoDB-like database with no configuration with the option of using your external MSSQL, MySQl or Postgres databases.

General Features

• RealTime HTTP Request and Response Logger
• RealTime Exception Logger
• In-code message and event logging
• User Friendly Logger Views
• Search Option for HTTP and Exception Logs
• Filtering Option for HTTP Logs using HTTP Methods and StatusCode
• Logger View Authentication
• Auto Clear Logs Option

What's New

• In-code logger for messages and events

Fixes

• Fixed Middleware order
• Fixed Index pages not showing on MVC Apps

Support

• .NET 7 and newer

Install Watchdog in your project

just add watchdog project at your solution and add project dependency by watchdog project

Usage

To enable WatchDog to listen for requests, use the WatchDog middleware provided by WatchDog.

Add WatchDog Namespace in Startup.cs

using WatchDog;

Setup Logging to External Db (MSSQL, MySQL & PostgreSQL) Optional

Add Database Connection String and Choose SqlDriver Option

services.AddWatchDogServices(opt => 
{
   opt.IsAutoClear = false; 
   opt.SetExternalDbConnString = "Server=localhost;Database=testDb;User Id=postgres;Password=root;"; 
   opt.SqlDriverOption = WatchDogSqlDriverEnum.PostgreSql; 
});

Add list of routes you want to ignore by the logger: Optional

app.UseWatchDogExceptionLogger();

...

app.UseWatchDog(opt => 
{ 
   opt.WatchPageUsername = "admin"; 
   opt.WatchPagePassword = "Qwerty@123"; 
   opt.Blacklist = "Test/testPost, weatherforecast";
 });

Log Messages/Events in code level log monitoring

WatchLogger.Log("...TestGet Started...");

View Logs and Exception

Start your server and head to /watchdog to view the logs.

Example: https://myserver.com/watchdog or https://localhost:[your-port]/watchdog

Contribution

Feel like something is missing? Fork the repo and send a PR.

Encountered a bug? Fork the repo and send a PR.

Alternatively, open an issue and we'll get to it as soon as we can.

Credit

Kelechi Onyekwere - Github Twitter

Israel Ulelu - Github Twitter