.NET Core 2.0: Not getting all my log messages

[sarchibald-mdsol]

I'm using .net core 2.0 and Visual Studio 2017. I've installed the latest version of NLog.Web.AspNetCore(4.4.1).

My nlog.config is:

<?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"
	  autoReload="true"
	  internalLogLevel="Info"
	  internalLogFile="c:\logs\internal-nlog.log">
	<!-- Load the ASP.NET Core plugin -->
	<extensions>
		<add assembly="NLog.Web.AspNetCore"/>
	</extensions>
	<!-- the targets to write to -->
	<targets>
		<!-- write logs to file -->
		<target xsi:type="File" name="allfile" fileName="c:\logs\cdcdashboard.${shortdate}.log"
					layout="${longdate}|${event-properties:item=EventId.Id}|${uppercase:${level}}|${message} ${exception}" />
		<!-- write to the void aka just remove -->
		<target xsi:type="Null" name="blackhole" />
	</targets>
	<!-- rules to map from logger name to target -->
	<rules>
		<!--All logs, including from Microsoft-->
		<logger name="*" minlevel="Trace" writeTo="allfile" />
		<!--Skip Microsoft logs and so log only own logs-->
		<logger name="Microsoft.*" minlevel="Trace" writeTo="blackhole" final="true" />
	</rules>
</nlog>

I'm getting all the Microsoft log entries as expected, but none of my custom log items.
Here's the relevant code:

using System.Web;
using CDCDashboard.Domain.Models;
using CDCDashboard.Mappers;
using CDCDashboard.Service;
using CDCDashboard.ViewModel;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;

namespace CDCDashboardWeb.Controllers
{
	public class RaveCDCEstimationsController : BaseController<RaveCdcEstimations>
	{
		RaveCDCEstimationsService service;
		public RaveCDCEstimationsController(NeoHelperContext dbContext, ILogger<RaveCdcEstimations> logger) : base(dbContext){
			service = new RaveCDCEstimationsService(dbContext);
			this.logger = logger;
		}

		[Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Route("api/GetDatabaseGB")]
		public BaseValueStatCollectionViewModel GetDatabaseGB(string xAxisLabel, string yAxisLabel)
		{
			var result = new BaseValueStatCollectionViewModel();
			var rawQryString = this.Request.QueryString.Value;
			var qryCollection = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(rawQryString);
			var nodes = service.Get(qryCollection);
			result = MapRaveCdcEstimations.MapToBaseValueStatCollectionVM(nodes, xAxisLabel, yAxisLabel);
			logger.LogDebug($"Exiting:: returning {result.NodeStats.Count.ToString()} nodes");
			return result;
		}
	}
}

I'm not seeing anything from logger.LogDebug("Entering", null); even though I can step through that line successfully in debug.
Here's what does show up in my log file:

2017-09-26 12:48:26.4453|11|FATAL|Hosting startup assembly exception Startup assembly Microsoft.AspNetCore.ApplicationInsights.HostingStartup failed to execute. See the inner exception for more details.
2017-09-26 12:48:26.6492|1|INFO|Request starting HTTP/1.1 GET http://localhost:4303/api/GetDatabaseGB?$top=150&$orderby=DatabaseSizeGB%20desc   
2017-09-26 12:48:26.9730|1|INFO|Executing action method CDCDashboardWeb.Controllers.RaveCDCEstimationsController.GetDatabaseGB (CDCDashboardWeb) with arguments (, ) - ModelState is Valid 
2017-09-26 12:48:27.5292|1|INFO|Executing ObjectResult, writing value Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ControllerContext. 
2017-09-26 12:48:27.5876|2|INFO|Executed action CDCDashboardWeb.Controllers.RaveCDCEstimationsController.GetDatabaseGB (CDCDashboardWeb) in 737.1523ms 
2017-09-26 12:48:27.5876|2|INFO|Request finished in 945.4005ms 200 application/json; charset=utf-8 

[304NotModified]

ILoggingBuilder.SetMinimumLevel()

see #167 and NLog/NLog.Extensions.Logging#128

[304NotModified]

I've added some notes to the readmes!

closing as duplicate of #167 and NLog/NLog.Extensions.Logging#128

[sarchibald-mdsol]

Thanks! That solved my problem. Now I'm getting too much from ASP.NET, but I'll figure out how to turn that off...

[304NotModified]

with the blackhole construction in NLog's config

[304NotModified]

but there is probably also another API option (the filters from MS)

[304NotModified]

@sarchibald-mdsol could you share your NLog set-up ('main' or startup)? Suddenly if has also this problem in my example. Thanks!

[sarchibald-mdsol]

Not sure why I'm getting messages in this thread - I didn't start this issue: #167 <#167>

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@sarchibald-mdsol

you have responded on sep 27 in this thread.

and im curious if you could elaborate on your solution

[sarchibald-mdsol]

Interesting. I'm looking through the entire thread, and don't see my user id in the list.

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