ASP.NET Core: Health Checks and Logging

1h 48mAdvanced2021-03-19

Authors

Christian Wenz

Web Pioneer, Technology Specialist, Entrepreneur

Course details

Logging and health checks in ASP.NET Core are vital for enterprise and commercial development. You need to understand what's happening on your site in order to find where problems have occurred, spot security issues, and discover optimization opportunities. In this course, instructor Christian Wenz shows you how to use the logging infrastructure that ASP.NET Core provides and then introduces you to the features that ASP.NET Core offers for health checks, including how to create, register, and customize them. Christian gives you a quick tour of the sample app that you will use in this course. Then he gets into the logging portion of the course, covering topics such as how to configure logging, log to files, log to Azure, use log scopes, and more. After a challenge to see how well you understand logging, Christian discusses ASP.NET Core health checks, including how to configure and add health checks, create a UI to work with health checks, and secure your health check endpoints.

Skills covered

ASP.NET CoreBack-End Web DevelopmentFull-Stack Web DevelopmentFront-End Web DevelopmentWeb DevelopmentMicrosoftOne-Off

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - You should care about logging and health checks
02 - What you should know
03 - Prerequisites and setup
04 - Touring the sample app

1. ASP.NET Core Logging

05 - Understanding ILogger T
06 - What's in the template
07 - Adding log entries
08 - Understanding log levels
09 - Configuring logging
10 - Logging to files
11 - Logging to Azure
12 - Using log scopes
13 - Challenge - Add logging to the sample app
14 - Solution - Add logging to the sample app
15 - Summary of ASP.NET logging

2. ASP.NET Core Health Checks

16 - Health checks explained
17 - Configuring health checks
18 - Adding health checks
19 - Adding database health checks
20 - Creating a UI
21 - Securing health check endpoints
22 - Challenge - Add a health check to the sample app
23 - Solution - Add a health check to the sample app
24 - Summary of health checks