--- title: Structured Logging in .NET with Serilog and ClickHouse description: A step-by-step guide to sending structured .NET logs directly to ClickHouse using Serilog's ClickHouse sink. Covers configuring the sink with a fluent schema... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/structured-logging-in-net-with-serilog-and-clickhouse-xwwes1xel twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Structured Logging in .NET with Serilog and ClickHouse | daily.dev og:description: A step-by-step guide to sending structured .NET logs directly to ClickHouse using Serilog's ClickHouse sink. Covers configuring the sink with a fluent schema... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/structured-logging-in-net-with-serilog-and-clickhouse-xwwes1xel og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/XWwES1xeL.png og:image:alt: Structured Logging in .NET with Serilog and ClickHouse og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Structured Logging in .NET with Serilog and ClickHouse **[ClickHouse](https://daily.dev/sources/clickhouse)** · 17 min read · 12 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary A step-by-step guide to sending structured .NET logs directly to ClickHouse using Serilog's ClickHouse sink. Covers configuring the sink with a fluent schema builder in C#, designing typed columns and JSON properties, enriching logs with correlation IDs, setting up full-text inverted indexes, and querying logs with SQL. Also addresses production concerns: batching parameters, TTL-based retention, MergeTree partitioning, failure handling callbacks, and real-time alerting via materialized views. A Docker Compose demo with a pre-built dashboard is provided. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@lucasgoularte** · 0 upvotes > Does it currently work with Java too, or is it exclusive to .NET? ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Structured Logging Patterns That Actually Survive Production — Daily DevOps & .NET](https://daily.dev/posts/structured-logging-patterns-that-actually-survive-production-daily-devops-net-lphiux5cy) · Daily DevOps & .NET · 6 upvotes · 0 comments - [Beyond Console.WriteLine: Mastering Structured Logging in .NET](https://daily.dev/posts/beyond-console-writeline-mastering-structured-logging-in-net-hgcoz2ses) · ITNEXT · 10 upvotes · 0 comments - [OpenTelemetry Logging .NET: ILogger Integration and Structured Log Export](https://daily.dev/posts/opentelemetry-logging-net-ilogger-integration-and-structured-log-export-5b3h28qfa) · We Are .NET · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#.net](https://daily.dev/tags/.net), [#observability](https://daily.dev/tags/observability), [#clickhouse](https://daily.dev/tags/clickhouse) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/structured-logging-in-net-with-serilog-and-clickhouse-xwwes1xel) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Structured Logging in .NET with Serilog and ClickHouse","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/structured-logging-in-net-with-serilog-and-clickhouse-xwwes1xel","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/structured-logging-in-net-with-serilog-and-clickhouse-xwwes1xel"},"datePublished":"2026-03-26T14:34:04.988Z","dateModified":"2026-03-26T14:54:43.660Z","description":"A step-by-step guide to sending structured .NET logs directly to ClickHouse using Serilog's ClickHouse sink. 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