Remove console and debug loggers in ASP.NET Core 2.0 when in production mode

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I would say the designed way to do this would be by changing the logging configuration not to log anything to those providers. But I understand that you want to remove any calls for production; and you can still do this properly in code.

You can simply access the hosting environment from the HostBuilderContext that gets passed to the ConfigureLogging lambda:

.ConfigureLogging((context, logging) =>
{
    logging.AddConfiguration(context.Configuration.GetSection("Logging"));

    if (context.HostingEnvironment.IsDevelopment())
    {
        logging.AddConsole();
        logging.AddDebug();
    }
});

Obviously, this alone does not help to undo what the CreateDefaultBuilder call already set up. First, you would need to unregister those providers. For that, you can use the new ILoggingBuilder.ClearProviders method:

.ConfigureLogging((context, logging) =>
{
    // clear all previously registered providers
    logging.ClearProviders();

    // now register everything you *really* want
    // …
});

This was introduced in response to this logging issue on GitHub.

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