Watch config file for changes and reload automatically. Print internal NLog messages to the console. Default value is: false Print internal NLog messages to the console error output. Default value is: false Write internal NLog messages to the specified file. Log level threshold for internal log messages. Default value is: Info. Global log level threshold for application log messages. Messages below this level won't be logged.. Pass NLog internal exceptions to the application. Default value is: false. Make all targets within this section asynchronous (creates additional threads but the calling thread isn't blocked by any target writes). Prefix for targets/layout renderers/filters/conditions loaded from this assembly. Load NLog extensions from the specified file (*.dll) Load NLog extensions from the specified assembly. Assembly name should be fully qualified. Name of the logger. May include '*' character which acts like a wildcard. Allowed forms are: *, Name, *Name, Name* and *Name* Comma separated list of levels that this rule matches. Minimum level that this rule matches. Maximum level that this rule matches. Level that this rule matches. Comma separated list of target names. Ignore further rules if this one matches. Enable or disable logging rule. Disabled rules are ignored. Name of the file to be included. The name is relative to the name of the current config file. Ignore any errors in the include file. Variable name. Variable value. Name of the target. Layout used to format log messages. Indicates whether to add <!-- --> comments around all written texts. Name of the target. Number of log events that should be processed in a batch by the lazy writer thread. Action to be taken when the lazy writer thread request queue count exceeds the set limit. Limit on the number of requests in the lazy writer thread request queue. Time in milliseconds to sleep between batches. Name of the target. Name of the target. Number of log events to be buffered. Timeout (in milliseconds) after which the contents of buffer will be flushed if there's no write in the specified period of time. Use -1 to disable timed flushes. Indicates whether to use sliding timeout. Name of the target. Encoding to be used. Instance of that is used to format log messages. Maximum message size in bytes. Indicates whether to append newline at the end of log message. Action that should be taken if the will be more connections than . Action that should be taken if the message is larger than maxMessageSize. Indicates whether to keep connection open whenever possible. Size of the connection cache (number of connections which are kept alive). Maximum current connections. 0 = no maximum. Network address. Maximum queue size. Indicates whether to include source info (file name and line number) in the information sent over the network. NDC item separator. Indicates whether to include stack contents. Indicates whether to include call site (class and method name) in the information sent over the network. AppInfo field. By default it's the friendly name of the current AppDomain. Indicates whether to include NLog-specific extensions to log4j schema. Indicates whether to include dictionary contents. Layout that should be use to calcuate the value for the parameter. Viewer parameter name. Name of the target. Text to be rendered. Header. Footer. Indicates whether to use default row highlighting rules. The encoding for writing messages to the . Indicates whether the error stream (stderr) should be used instead of the output stream (stdout). Condition that must be met in order to set the specified foreground and background color. Background color. Foreground color. Indicates whether to ignore case when comparing texts. Regular expression to be matched. You must specify either text or regex. Text to be matched. You must specify either text or regex. Indicates whether to match whole words only. Background color. Foreground color. Name of the target. Text to be rendered. Header. Footer. Indicates whether to send the log messages to the standard error instead of the standard output. The encoding for writing messages to the . Name of the target. Connection string. When provided, it overrides the values specified in DBHost, DBUserName, DBPassword, DBDatabase. Name of the connection string (as specified in <connectionStrings> configuration section. Database name. If the ConnectionString is not provided this value will be used to construct the "Database=" part of the connection string. Database host name. If the ConnectionString is not provided this value will be used to construct the "Server=" part of the connection string. Database password. If the ConnectionString is not provided this value will be used to construct the "Password=" part of the connection string. Name of the database provider. Database user name. If the ConnectionString is not provided this value will be used to construct the "User ID=" part of the connection string. Indicates whether to keep the database connection open between the log events. Obsolete - value will be ignored! The logging code always runs outside of transaction. Gets or sets a value indicating whether to use database transactions. Some data providers require this. Connection string using for installation and uninstallation. If not provided, regular ConnectionString is being used. Text of the SQL command to be run on each log level. Type of the SQL command to be run on each log level. Type of the command. Connection string to run the command against. If not provided, connection string from the target is used. Indicates whether to ignore failures. Command text. Layout that should be use to calcuate the value for the parameter. Database parameter name. Database parameter precision. Database parameter scale. Database parameter size. Name of the target. Text to be rendered. Header. Footer. Name of the target. Layout used to format log messages. Name of the target. Layout used to format log messages. Layout that renders event Category. Layout that renders event ID. Name of the Event Log to write to. This can be System, Application or any user-defined name. Name of the machine on which Event Log service is running. Value to be used as the event Source. Optional entrytype. When not set, or when not convertable to then determined by Name of the target. Indicates whether to return to the first target after any successful write. Name of the target. Text to be rendered. Header. Footer. File encoding. Line ending mode. Maximum number of archive files that should be kept. Way file archives are numbered. Name of the file to be used for an archive. Indicates whether to automatically archive log files every time the specified time passes. Size in bytes above which log files will be automatically archived. Warning: combining this with isn't supported. We cannot create multiple archive files, if they should have the same name. Choose: Indicates whether to compress archive files into the zip archive format. Gets or set a value indicating whether a managed file stream is forced, instead of used the native implementation. File attributes (Windows only). Indicates whether to replace file contents on each write instead of appending log message at the end. Name of the file to write to. Value specifying the date format to use when archving files. Indicates whether to archive old log file on startup. Indicates whether to create directories if they do not exist. Indicates whether to delete old log file on startup. Indicates whether to enable log file(s) to be deleted. Maximum number of seconds that files are kept open. If this number is negative the files are not automatically closed after a period of inactivity. Indicates whether concurrent writes to the log file by multiple processes on different network hosts. Maximum number of log filenames that should be stored as existing. Indicates whether to keep log file open instead of opening and closing it on each logging event. Indicates whether concurrent writes to the log file by multiple processes on the same host. Number of times the write is appended on the file before NLog discards the log message. Delay in milliseconds to wait before attempting to write to the file again. Indicates whether to automatically flush the file buffers after each log message. Number of files to be kept open. Setting this to a higher value may improve performance in a situation where a single File target is writing to many files (such as splitting by level or by logger). Log file buffer size in bytes. Name of the target. Condition expression. Log events who meet this condition will be forwarded to the wrapped target. Name of the target. Windows domain name to change context to. Required impersonation level. Type of the logon provider. Logon Type. User account password. Indicates whether to revert to the credentials of the process instead of impersonating another user. Username to change context to. Name of the target. Endpoint address. Name of the endpoint configuration in WCF configuration file. Indicates whether to use a WCF service contract that is one way (fire and forget) or two way (request-reply) Client ID. Indicates whether to include per-event properties in the payload sent to the server. Indicates whether to use binary message encoding. Layout that should be use to calculate the value for the parameter. Name of the parameter. Type of the parameter. Name of the target. Text to be rendered. Header. Footer. Indicates whether to send message as HTML instead of plain text. Encoding to be used for sending e-mail. Indicates whether to add new lines between log entries. CC email addresses separated by semicolons (e.g. john@domain.com;jane@domain.com). Recipients' email addresses separated by semicolons (e.g. john@domain.com;jane@domain.com). BCC email addresses separated by semicolons (e.g. john@domain.com;jane@domain.com). Mail message body (repeated for each log message send in one mail). Mail subject. Sender's email address (e.g. joe@domain.com). Indicates whether NewLine characters in the body should be replaced with tags. Priority used for sending mails. Indicates the SMTP client timeout. SMTP Server to be used for sending. SMTP Authentication mode. Username used to connect to SMTP server (used when SmtpAuthentication is set to "basic"). Password used to authenticate against SMTP server (used when SmtpAuthentication is set to "basic"). Indicates whether SSL (secure sockets layer) should be used when communicating with SMTP server. Port number that SMTP Server is listening on. Indicates whether the default Settings from System.Net.MailSettings should be used. Folder where applications save mail messages to be processed by the local SMTP server. Specifies how outgoing email messages will be handled. Name of the target. Layout used to format log messages. Name of the target. Layout used to format log messages. Encoding to be used when writing text to the queue. Indicates whether to use the XML format when serializing message. This will also disable creating queues. Indicates whether to check if a queue exists before writing to it. Indicates whether to create the queue if it doesn't exists. Label to associate with each message. Name of the queue to write to. Indicates whether to use recoverable messages (with guaranteed delivery). Name of the target. Class name. Method name. The method must be public and static. Name of the target. Layout used to format log messages. Encoding to be used. Maximum message size in bytes. Indicates whether to append newline at the end of log message. Action that should be taken if the will be more connections than . Action that should be taken if the message is larger than maxMessageSize. Network address. Size of the connection cache (number of connections which are kept alive). Indicates whether to keep connection open whenever possible. Maximum current connections. 0 = no maximum. Maximum queue size. Name of the target. Encoding to be used. Instance of that is used to format log messages. Maximum message size in bytes. Indicates whether to append newline at the end of log message. Action that should be taken if the will be more connections than . Action that should be taken if the message is larger than maxMessageSize. Indicates whether to keep connection open whenever possible. Size of the connection cache (number of connections which are kept alive). Maximum current connections. 0 = no maximum. Network address. Maximum queue size. Indicates whether to include source info (file name and line number) in the information sent over the network. NDC item separator. Indicates whether to include stack contents. Indicates whether to include call site (class and method name) in the information sent over the network. AppInfo field. By default it's the friendly name of the current AppDomain. Indicates whether to include NLog-specific extensions to log4j schema. Indicates whether to include dictionary contents. Name of the target. Layout used to format log messages. Indicates whether to perform layout calculation. Name of the target. Layout used to format log messages. Name of the target. Indicates whether performance counter should be automatically created. Name of the performance counter category. Counter help text. Name of the performance counter. Performance counter type. The value by which to increment the counter. Performance counter instance name. Name of the target. Default filter to be applied when no specific rule matches. Condition to be tested. Resulting filter to be applied when the condition matches. Name of the target. Name of the target. Number of times to repeat each log message. Name of the target. Number of retries that should be attempted on the wrapped target in case of a failure. Time to wait between retries in milliseconds. Name of the target. Name of the target. Name of the target. Layout used to format log messages. Name of the target. Should we include the BOM (Byte-order-mark) for UTF? Influences the property. This will only work for UTF-8. Encoding. Web service method name. Only used with Soap. Web service namespace. Only used with Soap. Protocol to be used when calling web service. Web service URL. Footer layout. Header layout. Body layout (can be repeated multiple times). Custom column delimiter value (valid when ColumnDelimiter is set to 'Custom'). Column delimiter. Quote Character. Quoting mode. Indicates whether CVS should include header. Layout of the column. Name of the column. Option to suppress the extra spaces in the output json Determines wether or not this attribute will be Json encoded. Layout that will be rendered as the attribute's value. Name of the attribute. Footer layout. Header layout. Body layout (can be repeated multiple times). Layout text. Action to be taken when filter matches. Condition expression. Action to be taken when filter matches. Indicates whether to ignore case when comparing strings. Layout to be used to filter log messages. Substring to be matched. Action to be taken when filter matches. String to compare the layout to. Indicates whether to ignore case when comparing strings. Layout to be used to filter log messages. Action to be taken when filter matches. Indicates whether to ignore case when comparing strings. Layout to be used to filter log messages. Substring to be matched. Action to be taken when filter matches. String to compare the layout to. Indicates whether to ignore case when comparing strings. Layout to be used to filter log messages.