Serilog & Elastic Search aspnetcore with docker not working - asp.net-core

Question

I have installed both elastic search and kibana 8.6.1
I am using Serilog.AspnetCore 6.1, Serilog.Enrichers.Environment 2.2, and Serilog.Sinks.ElasticSearch 9.0
I have configured my application with Serilog to log data to elastic search
configuration
.Enrich.FromLogContext()
.Enrich.WithMachineName()
.WriteTo.Debug()
.WriteTo.Console()
.WriteTo.Elasticsearch(new ElasticsearchSinkOptions(new Uri(elasticConfigurationSettings.Uri))
{
IndexFormat = $"applogs-{context.HostingEnvironment.ApplicationName?.ToLower().Replace(".", "-")}-{context.HostingEnvironment.EnvironmentName?.ToLower().Replace(".", "-")}-{DateTime.UtcNow:yyyy-MM}",
TypeName = null,
AutoRegisterTemplate = true
})
.Enrich.WithProperty("Environment", context.HostingEnvironment.EnvironmentName ?? "Environment Missing")
.Enrich.WithProperty("Application", context.HostingEnvironment.ApplicationName ?? "Application Unknown")
.ReadFrom.Configuration(context.Configuration);
SelfLog.Enable(Console.Error);
Below is my Serilog settings in the appsettings.json file
"Serilog": {
"MinimumLevel": {
"Default": "Information",
"Override": {
"Microsoft": "Information",
"System": "Warning"
}
}
},
"ElasticConfiguration": {
"Uri": "http://localhost:9200"
}
I have an httphandler that has logging statements
logger.LogInformation("Sending request to {Url}", request.RequestUri);
logger.LogInformation("Received a success response from {Url}", response.RequestMessage.RequestUri);
but I never see any data in kibana. Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

you have to networking your containers with each other
you can using them by adding Container Orchestrator and making you're project multi-container app
see more information about it in this link

Answer 2

I was able to get things working.
I changed
"ElasticConfiguration": {
"Uri": "http://localhost:9200"
}
to
"ElasticConfiguration": {
"Uri": "http://elasticsearch:9200"
}
since this is the name of the container w/in docker.
I updated my docker-compose file to update a few settings within elasticsearch 8.6.1
- ES_JAVA_OPTS=-Xms512m -Xmx512m
- xpack.security.enabled=false
- discovery.type=single-node
- ELASTIC_CLIENT_APIVERSIONING=1
I updated my Kibana settings as well
- ELASTICSEARCH_HOSTS=http://elasticsearch:9200
In addition, I came across this SO post discussing Serilog and ES8, which helped me update my common logging library
I am now able to launch Kibana and see my logs.