The tool consists of simple decorators for the DbConnection and DbCommand which track the execution time and write messages to the ILogger<T>. The ILogger<T> can be handled by any logging framework (e.g. Serilog). The result is similar to the default EF Core logging behavior.

The lib declares a helper method for registering the IDbConnectionFactory in the IoC container. The connection factory is SQL Provider agnostic. That's why you have to specify the real factory method:

  services.AddDbConnectionFactory(prv => new SqlConnection(conStr)); 

After registration, the IDbConnectionFactory can be injected into classes that need a SQL connection.

private readonly IDbConnectionFactory _connectionFactory;
public GetProductsHandler(IDbConnectionFactory connectionFactory)
{
    _connectionFactory = connectionFactory;
}

The IDbConnectionFactory.CreateConnection will return a decorated version that logs the activity.

using (DbConnection db = _connectionFactory.CreateConnection())
{
    //...
}

The lifetime of the factory can be configured during the registration in DI.
Also, you can alter the default messages using the DbLoggingConfigurationBuilder and fluent api.

The code is simpler than this explanation 🙂. Please check the Samples.
There you can find a comparison of EF Core and Dapper. It should show the similarities in logging behavior.

Run docker-compose build , and then docker-compose up
This will spin up a PostgreSQL, ASP.Net Core API, Elastic, Kibana
Of course, you can start services selectively (e.g. only DB docker-compose up db)
If you'd like to play with ELK, you should do the following:

1. start everything in docker compose
2. wait approximately 1 min for it to start (you can check elastic by http:localhost:9200 and Kibana by http://localhost:5601)
3. run a few queries for API to fill the elastic index: (http://localhost:5000/swagger)
4. open Kibana and create an index pattern:
   4.1 Management (gear icon) -> Index Patterns
   4.2 Create a pattern logstash-
   4.3 Select the timestamp field @timestamp from the dropdown menu
   4.4 Click Create index
5. enjoy playing with Kibana and structured logging