Serilog

Console logs disappear the moment the container restarts. Wiring Serilog to ship structured logs into Azure Application Insights, and why structured logging matters once you're actually querying logs instead of just scrolling through them.

Text log files are fine until you need to filter, join, or aggregate them. Serilog's MSSqlServer sink writes structured logs straight into a queryable table, with the config that keeps a busy app from hammering the database on every log call.