Capturing server event logs in Seq

Question

I'm looking at installing Seq to view all my application exceptions in one place. This is easy to do for exceptions in my C# code, by using Serilog. However, I would like to send server event logs to Seq as well (that is, the events that show up in Event Viewer). How can I do that?

Answer 1

At present, there's no Event Log → Serilog or Event Log → Seq bridge that I'm aware of.

You can tail event logs in C# and pipe them through Serilog using EventLog.EntryWritten, if this approach is an option for you.