How to make Nlog archive a file with the date when the logging took place.
- by Carl Bergquist
Hi,
We are using Nlog as our logging framework and I cannot find a way to archive files the way I want. I would like to have the date of when the logging took place in the logging file name.
Ex All logging that happend from 2009-10-01 00:00 -> 2009-10-01:23:59 should be placed in Log.2009-10-01.log
The current NLog.config that I use looks like this.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<nlog xmlns="http://www.nlog-project.org/schemas/NLog.xsd"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" >
<extensions>
<add assembly="My.Awesome.LoggingExentions"/>
</extensions>
<targets>
<target name="file1" xsi:type="File"
fileName="${basedir}/Logs/Log.log"
layout="${longdate} ${level:uppercase=true:padding=5} ${session} ${storeid} ${msisdn} - ${logger:shortName=true} - ${message} ${exception:format=tostring}"
archiveEvery="Day"
archiveFileName="${basedir}/Logs/Log${shortdate}-{#}.log"
archiveNumbering="Sequence"
maxArchiveFiles="99999"
keepFileOpen="true"
/>
</targets>
<rules>
<logger name="*" minlevel="Trace" writeTo="file1" />
</rules>
</nlog>
This however sets the date in the logfile to the date when the new logfile is created. Which cause frustration when you want to read logs later.
It also seems like I have to have atleast on # in the archiveFileName, which I rather not. So if you got a solution for that also I would be twice as thankful =)
