OpenTelemetry .Net Logging

[panthamm]

I am tracing .Net application using ZipkinExporter successfully. Do we have any exporters available for Logging in .Net application?
Right now I am seeing only AddConsoleExporter for logging.

[SergeyKanzhelev]

Logging is currently in alpha stage in OpenTelemetry. So we do not have much support. But I know @cijothomas is looking into it now. @cijothomas can you help?

[cijothomas]

As of now, we don't have any exporter other than Console.
Please open an issue in the Otel .NET repo if you have additional .NET specific questions.

[panthamm]

Thanks @SergeyKanzhelev for your reply.
@SergeyKanzhelev, @cijothomas, We are looking to standardize the Tracing, Logging and Metrics using OpenTelemetry for wcf, webapi applications. I am seeing OpenTelemetry with Application Insight as the best bet for my application scenarios for all 3 pillars (Tracing, Logging, and Metrics). Are there any best other exporters for the 3 pillars (Tracing, Logging and Metrics)?

[SergeyKanzhelev]

@cijothomas do we need discussions in .NET repo? Or issues would suffice for now?

[cijothomas]

Issues and Slack channel should be good for now in my opinion! (1 less place to look for info!)

[rkbodenner]

The OTLP exporter supports traces and metrics for .NET now: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/tree/main/src/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol

Logs support is in a separate package at the moment, but should be merged in once we have a stable logs data model. See #2488