Serilog.Sinks.Email

Sends log events by SMTP email.

ℹ️ Version 3.x of this package changes the name and structure of many configuration parameters from their 2.x names; see below for detailed information.

Package - Serilog.Sinks.Email

await using var log = new LoggerConfiguration()
    .WriteTo.Email(
        from: "[email protected]",
        to: "[email protected]",
        host: "smtp.example.com")
    .CreateLogger();

Supported options are:

Parameter	Description
from	The email address emails will be sent from.
to	The email address emails will be sent to. Multiple addresses can be separated with commas or semicolons.
host	The SMTP server to use.
port	The port used for the SMTP connection. The default is 25.
connectionSecurity	Choose the security applied to the SMTP connection. This enumeration type is supplied by MailKit. The default is Auto.
credentials	The network credentials to use to authenticate with the mail server.
subject	A message template describing the email subject. The default is "Log Messages".
body	A message template describing the format of the email body. The default is "{Timestamp} [{Level}] {Message}{NewLine}{Exception}".
formatProvider	Supplies culture-specific formatting information. The default is to use the current culture.

An overload accepting EmailSinkOptions can be used to specify advanced options such as batched and/or HTML body templates.

Sending batch email

To send batch email, supply WriteTo.Email with a batch size:

await using var log = new LoggerConfiguration()
    .WriteTo.Email(
        options: new()
        {
            From = "[email protected]",
            To = "[email protected]",
            Host = "smtp.example.com",
        },
        batchingOptions: new()
        {
            BatchSizeLimit = 10,
            BufferingTimeLimit = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(30),
        })
    .CreateLogger();

Batch formatting can be customized using options.Body.

Sending HTML email

To send HTML email, specify a custom IBatchTextFormatter in options.Body and set options.IsBodyHtml to true:

await using var log = new LoggerConfiguration()
    .WriteTo.Email(
        options: new()
        {
            From = "[email protected]",
            To = "[email protected]",
            Host = "smtp.example.com",
            Body = new MyHtmlBodyFormatter(),
            IsBodyHtml = true,
        },
        batchingOptions: new()
        {
            BatchSizeLimit = 10,
            BufferingTimeLimit = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(30),
        })
    .CreateLogger();

A simplistic HTML formatter is shown below:

class MyHtmlBodyFormatter : IBatchTextFormatter
{
    public void FormatBatch(IEnumerable<LogEvent> logEvents, TextWriter output)
    {
        output.Write("<table>");
        foreach (var logEvent in logEvents)
        {
            output.Write("<tr>");
            Format(logEvent, output);
            output.Write("</tr>");
        }

        output.Write("</table>");
    }

    public void Format(LogEvent logEvent, TextWriter output)
    {
        using var buffer = new StringWriter();
        logEvent.RenderMessage(buffer);
        output.Write(WebUtility.HtmlEncode(buffer.ToString()));
    }
}