nlog.config

<?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="Logs/internal-nlog.txt">

    <!-- 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:\temp\nlog-all-${shortdate}.log"
                    layout="${longdate}|${event-properties:item=EventId.Id}|${logger}|${uppercase:${level}}|${message} ${exception}" />

        <!-- another file log, only own logs. Uses some ASP.NET core renderers -->
        <target xsi:type="File" name="ownFile-web" fileName="c:\temp\nlog-own-${shortdate}.log"
                layout="${longdate}|${event-properties:item=EventId.Id}|${logger}|${uppercase:${level}}|  ${message} ${exception}|url: ${aspnet-request-url}|action: ${aspnet-mvc-action}" />

        <!-- 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" />
        <logger name="*" minlevel="Trace" writeTo="ownFile-web" />
    </rules>
</nlog>