Logging Is Hot Again

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Logging moves from lines to searchable events: demos ship structured Serilog JSON through Elasticsearch + Kibana using Beats and Logstash, show aggregations by method and argument and a correlated two-service trace by propagating an operation-id header and using an ASP.NET action filter. Options for instrumentation include agent profiling, middleware/DI or PostSharp build-time instrumentation; Activity/OpenTracing concepts (spans, tags, baggage) are supported by .NET diagnostics but ecosystem tooling for .NET is still immature. Sampling traces reduces cost and works.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 4:53Logging is changing
3. 7:40Logging vs Monitoring
4. 9:51Logging and Tracing
5. 14:13Elastic Stack
6. 15:04Elastic Stack Demo
7. 19:41Azure Log Analytics
8. 22:50Automatic Code Instrumentation
9. 27:06Open Tracing
10. 29:11What is Innet
11. 31:43What is Activity
12. 33:36HTTP Correlation
13. 37:28Example
14. 40:51First Demo

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